Borrowed fromAncient Greekπαρθένος(parthénos,“maiden; virgin”) +-ac.
partheniac (notcomparable)
- (obsolete)
- (Ancient Greek and Latin poetry) of or pertaining to some form ofirregularanapesticmeter
- anapesticdimetercatalectic,paroemiac[1][2]
- anapestictrimeterhypercatalectic[3]
- anapestictetrametercatalectic[4]
Authors seem to disagree about what this term designates.
partheniac (pluralpartheniacs)
- (Ancient Greek and Latin poetry, obsolete) aline of partheniac meter
- ^Bullions, Peter.The Principles of Latin Grammar. Pratt, Woodford, Farmer & Brace, 1854.323
- ^ Christiansen, Eric. "Dudo of St Quentin: History of the Normans." (1998).217
- ^Lyne, Richard.The Latin Primer in Three Parts... C. Law, 1806.221
- ^Grant, John.Institutes of Latin grammar... G. and WB Whittaker, 1823.489
