palimbacchius

English

Noun

palimbacchius (plural palimbacchii)

1. (poetry) A metrical foot composed of two long syllables and one short one.

Latin

Etymology

From πάλιν (pálin, “back, again, back again”) (whence also palindrome) + bacchius.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pa.lim.bakˈkʰiː.us/, [pälʲɪmbäkˈkʰiːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pa.lim.bakˈki.us/, [pälimbäkˈkiːus]

Noun

palimbacchīus m (genitive palimbacchīī); second declension

1. palimbacchius, antibacchius

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	palimbacchīus	palimbacchīī
genitive	palimbacchīī	palimbacchīōrum
dative	palimbacchīō	palimbacchīīs
accusative	palimbacchīum	palimbacchīōs
ablative	palimbacchīō	palimbacchīīs
vocative	palimbacchīe	palimbacchīī

Synonyms

• (antibacchius): antibacchus

Descendants

• English: palimbacchius

References

• “palimbacchius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• palimbacchius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.