hexameter
nounEtymology From Ancient Greek ἑξάμετρος (hexámetros). Equivalent to hexa- + meter. Piecewise doublet of sexameter.
1
A line in a poem having six metrical feet.
- The date of composition is pretty certainly about 1590, a date suggested by the burlesque hexameters of Huanebango.1908, Walter Wilson Greg, “[Preface]”, in G[eorge] P[eele], The Old Wives Tale, 1595, [Oxford, Oxfordshire]: […] [F]or the Malone Society by Horace Hart […], at the Oxford University Press, published 1965, →OCLC, page vi:
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A poetic metre in which each line has six feet.
- Synonyms
- sexameter
- Derived terms
- hexametrist
- Related terms
- hexametral, hexametric, hexametrize