τρίβραχυς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

A substantive in elliptical use for τρῐ́βρᾰχῠς [πούς] (tríbrakhus [poús], “[a metrical foot] consisting of three short syllables”) — written in full in an interpolation to the Τέχνη Ῥητορική of Dionysius of Halicarnassus — formed from τρῐ- (tri-, “three”) +‎ βρᾰχῠ́ς (brakhús, “short”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /trí.bra.kʰys/ → /ˈtri.βra.çys/ → /ˈtri.vra.çis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /trí.bra.kʰys/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.bra.kʰys/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.βra.çys/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.vra.çys/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.vra.çis/

Noun

τρῐ́βρᾰχῠς • (tríbrakhus) m (genitive τρῐβρᾰ́χεος); third declension

1. (prosody) tribrach (metrical foot comprising three short syllables)
   • Arcad. 40
   • Hephaestio, Collected Works 3.2
   • Choerob., in Theod. 1.232.H.
   • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, The Arrangement of Words 17:

     ὁ μὲν γὰρ ἐξ ἁπασῶν βραχειῶν συνεστώς, καλούμενος δὲ ὑπό τινων χορεῖος τρίβραχυς πούς, οὗ παράδειγμα τοιόνδε

     ho mèn gàr ex hapasôn brakheiôn sunestṓs, kaloúmenos dè hupó tinōn khoreîos tríbrakhus poús, hoû parádeigma toiónde

Declension

Third declension of ὁ τρῐ́βρᾰχῠς; τοῦ τρῐβρᾰ́χεος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ τρῐ́βρᾰχῠς ho tríbrakhus	τὼ τρῐβρᾰ́χει tṑ tribrákhei	οἱ τρῐβρᾰ́χεις hoi tribrákheis
Genitive	τοῦ τρῐβρᾰ́χεος toû tribrákheos	τοῖν τρῐβρᾰχέοιν toîn tribrakhéoin	τῶν τρῐβρᾰ́χεων tôn tribrákheōn
Dative	τῷ τρῐβρᾰ́χει tôi tribrákhei	τοῖν τρῐβρᾰχέοιν toîn tribrakhéoin	τοῖς τρῐβρᾰ́χεσῐ / τρῐβρᾰ́χεσῐν toîs tribrákhesi(n)
Accusative	τὸν τρῐ́βρᾰχῠν tòn tríbrakhun	τὼ τρῐβρᾰ́χει tṑ tribrákhei	τοὺς τρῐβρᾰ́χεις toùs tribrákheis
Vocative	τρῐ́βρᾰχῠ tríbrakhu	τρῐβρᾰ́χει tribrákhei	τρῐβρᾰ́χεις tribrákheis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Latin: tribrachys

References

• “τρίβρᾰχυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τρίβραχυς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette