hendecasyllabus Latin · revision 33535

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=81/79–52/50 BC, Catullus|origins=grc ἑνδεκασύλλαβος}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''hendecasyllabus''' ''m'' (genitive hendecasyllabī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also written ''hendecasyllabos'', with the Greek ending.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ Manuscripts often spell it with ''en-''.^(TLL)

+ As an adjective it is ''hendecasyllabus, -a, -um''.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|ἑνδεκασύλλαβος|tr=hendekasúllabos]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary)^(Gaffiot 2016) It passed into Italian as [[m|it|endecasillabo]].^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL records it from Catullus on.^(TLL)^(Gaffiot 2016) In one poem he tells someone to expect three hundred hendecasyllables, ''hendecasyllabos trecentos exspecta'', and another opens by summoning them: ''adeste, hendecasyllabi, quot estis omnes undique''.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As a noun it is a line of eleven syllables, above all the Phalaecean, and in the plural a poem or poems in that metre.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Seneca the Elder reports that Catullus, in his hendecasyllables, calls Calvus ''salaputium disertum'', an eloquent little mannikin;^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Quintilian, Statius and Pliny the Younger also use it.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) The TLL finds it rarely as an adjective except in the grammarians,^(TLL) where Terentianus Maurus speaks of a ''versus hendecasyllabus'',^(Conte 2010) and grammarians name kinds such as the Sapphic, Alcaic and Archilochian hendecasyllable.^(Conte 2010) Marius Victorinus notes that some metres are named from the number of their syllables.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus calls his poems hendecasyllables.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian discusses hendecasyllables.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 45–96 AD – Statius includes hendecasyllables in a book of his ''Silvae''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of a line of verse: of eleven [[m|en|syllable|alt=syllables]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # A line of eleven syllables, a [[m|en|hendecasyllable]], especially the Phalaecean.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Conte 2010)

+ # ''(in the plural)'' A poem or poems in that [[m|en|metre]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[syllaba]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}