ἴαμβος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: name of a metrical foot and a verse, [[iambus]], [[mocking verse]] (Archil., Hdt., Att.).<br />Compounds: Compp., e. g. <b class="b3">ἰαμβο-ποιός</b> (Arist.), <b class="b3">χωλ-ίαμβος</b> [[choliambus]] (Demetr. Eloc.; cf. Risch IF 59, 284f.).<br />Derivatives: [[ἰαμβικός]] [[iambical]], [[mocking]] (Arist., D. H.), [[ἰαμβώδης]] [[mocking]] (Philostr.), [[ἰαμβύλος]] [[mocking poet]] (Hdn.), [[ἰαμβύκη]] name of an instrument (Eup., H.; cf. [[σαμβύκη]]), [[ἰαμβεῖος]] [[iambic]], [[ἰαμβεῖον]] n. [[iambic verse]] (Att. ). Denominative verbs: [[ἰαμβίζω]], <b class="b3">-ιάζω</b> [[speak]], [[mock in iambi]] (Gorg., Arist.; cf. v. Wilamowitz Glaube 2, 53) with [[ἰαμβιστής]] [[mocking-poet]] (Ath.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Cf. [[διθύραμβος]], [[θρίαμβος]] (also [[ἴθυμβος]]); of Pre-Greek origin. Older attempts to give an explanation from Indo-European in Bq (with Add. et corr.) ; s. on [[διθύραμβος]]. - Acc. to Theander Eranos 20, 1ff. to [[ἰά]]; on this Kretschmer Glotta 13, 243ff. (s. also on [[ἔλεγος]]). See Hester, Lingia 13 (1965) 354f.