Meaning of pentasyllabos | Babel Free

Definitions

1. of five syllables, pentasyllabic
   Greek-type, Late-Latin, declension-2, two-termination
2. masculine/feminine accusative plural of pentasyllabos
   accusative, feminine, form-of, masculine, plural

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Examples

“Pentasyllabos etiam quidam et hexasyllabos pedes, quos Graeci syzygias vocant, faciendos crediderunt, quorum nobis superflua et inanis opera repudianda est, cum eorum etiam pedum, quos supra enumeravimus, conplures ab omni metrica disciplina alieni sint.”

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“hos sequuntur, ut dixi, pedes tetrasyllabi XVI, pentasyllabi XXXII, hexasyllabi LXIIII.”

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“ERIPEDEM : que ereos pedes habuit vel aeripedem, id est velocem, ut dicit Priscianus qui tetrasillabum posuit hic pro penthasillabo.”

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