iambus Latin · revision 33024

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=grc ἴαμβος}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [iˈam.bʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [iˈam.bus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ïambus''' ''m'' (genitive ïambī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Also ''iambos'', with the Greek ending.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|ἴαμβος|tr=íambos|t=iambus]],^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) a Greek word whose origin Köbler calls unexplained and perhaps not Indo-European.^(Köbler 2010) Latin grammarians explained it either from Iambe, daughter of Celeus, as Sacerdos says, or from the Greek verb for reviling, as Diomedes and Marius Victorinus do.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who reports in ''De Oratore'' that Aristotle keeps the iambus and the trochee from the orator.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the metrical foot of a short syllable followed by a long, and Horace and Quintilian discuss it.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also the iambic trimeter, as in Terentianus Maurus, and an iambic poem, especially invective: Cicero speaks of one wounded by the iambus of Hipponax or the verse of Archilochus, and Catullus warns that someone will not escape his iambics.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) English ''iambus'' was used in the 1580s;^(Etymonline) ''iamb'' (1842) came from French ''iambe'' or directly from Latin.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the metrical foot.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus of invective iambics.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of the foot.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 1580s – English ''iambus''.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1842 – English ''iamb''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An [[m|en|iamb]], [[m|en|iambus]], a foot of one short and one long syllable.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # An iambic trimeter;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) (plural) iambic poems, especially [[m|en|invective]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|iamb]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}