pancratium metrum
Latin
Etymology
From pancratius (“athletic, Pancratian”) (from pancratium (“a contest blending boxing and wrestling”)) + metrum (“measure; meter”). Mentioned in Marius Honoratus Servius's Dē centum metrīs.[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [paŋˈkra.ti.ũː ˈmɛ.trũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [paŋˈkrat̪.t̪͡s̪i.um ˈmɛː.t̪rum]
Noun
pancratium metrum n (genitive pancratiī metrī); second declension
- Pancratian meter, a trochaic meter consisting of hypercatalectic monometer
Declension
Second-declension adjective with a second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | pancratium metrum | pancratia metra |
| genitive | pancratiī metrī | pancratiōrum metrōrum |
| dative | pancratiō metrō | pancratiīs metrīs |
| accusative | pancratium metrum | pancratia metra |
| ablative | pancratiō metrō | pancratiīs metrīs |
| vocative | pancratium metrum | pancratia metra |
Descendants
- English: Pancratian
References
- ^ Dē centum metrīs "Dē trochaicīs"
- “pancratius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press