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logaoedic

UK/lɒɡəˈiːdɪk/

logaoedic adjective: of any metre rhythmically intermediate between ordinary speech (or prose) and song (or poetry), typically combining dactyls and trochees.

Adjective

logaoedic (not comparable)

  1. Of any metre rhythmically intermediate between ordinary speech (or prose) and song (or poetry), typically combining dactyls and trochees.
    • Hence this metre was frequently used by the Æolians, and their strophes were principally formed by connecting logaœdic rhythms with trochees, iambi, and Æolic dactyls.1840, Karl Otfried Müller (author of the original German), George Cornewall Lewis (translator of chapters I–XXII), “The Æolic School of Lyric Poetry.” (chapter XIII, pages 164–189), in History of the...
    • The Glyconeus, which has a logaœdic order.1844, Major, Guide Gr. Trag., second edition, page 159

Noun

logaoedic (plural logaoedics)

  1. Any logaoedic verse.
    • Anapæstic Logaœdics are identical in their rhythm with…Logaœdic Dactyls.1855, Linwood, Greek Tragic Metres, page 79
    • Chorees and logaoedics can be extended to Series of six measures.1879, J. W. White, transl., Schmidt’s Rhythmic & Metric, § 21, page 65

Forms of logaoedic

Adjective
alternative formlogaedic
alternative formlogaœdic
Noun
plurallogaoedics

Origin of logaoedic

From Latin logaoedicus, from Ancient Greek λογᾰοιδῐκός (logăoidĭkós), from λόγος (lógos, “speech, prose”) + ἀοιδή (aoidḗ, “song”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, “-ic”).

Questions about logaoedic

What does logaoedic mean?
Logaoedic means of any metre rhythmically intermediate between ordinary speech (or prose) and song (or poetry), typically combining dactyls and trochees.
What part of speech is logaoedic?
Logaoedic can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce logaoedic?
Logaoedic is pronounced /lɒɡəˈiːdɪk/ (UK).

Words near logaoedic in the dictionary

  1. loganic acid
  2. loganin
  3. logans
  4. Logans Crossing
  5. Logansport
  6. logaoedic
  7. logaoedics
  8. logaphasia
  9. Logar
  10. logarithm
  11. logarithmal

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