anacreontic

From Late Latin Anacreonticus, from Ancient Greek Ἀνακρέων (Anakréōn), Anacreon a Greek poet.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˌnakɹɪˈɒntɪk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /əˌnækɹiˈɑntɪk/

anacreontic (comparative more anacreontic, superlative most anacreontic)

1. (prosody) Pertaining to the style of the Greek poet Anacreon, who wrote of wine and love; (specifically) designating a metre based on an anaclastic ionic dimeter. [from 17th c.]
2. Characterised by festivity and the celebration of love and/or drinking; bacchanalian, amorous. [from 17th c.]
   • 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter X, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 95:

     [T]he false Thecla […] had initiated me into the anacreontic diversions and fruitions of men and women.

anacreontic (plural anacreontics)

1. (poetry) A short lyrical piece about love and wine.

• canceration

Borrowed from French anacréontique.

anacreontic m or n (feminine singular anacreontică, masculine plural anacreontici, feminine and neuter plural anacreontice)

1. anacreontic