adjectivefirst/second-declension adjective
anapaestus1
anapaestus (feminine anapaesta, neuter anapaestum)
Classical[a.naˈpae̯s.tʊs]Ecclesiastical[a.naˈpɛs.tus]
Meaning
- adjectiveanapestic
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
pēs metricus (˘˘¯)anapaestus -ī (m) — in IVLIANVS III: Persia, ch. 12
Declension
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | anapaestus | anapaesta | anapaestum |
| genitive | anapaestī | anapaestae | anapaestī |
| dative | anapaestō | anapaestae | anapaestō |
| accusative | anapaestum | anapaestam | anapaestum |
| ablative | anapaestō | anapaestā | anapaestō |
| vocative | anapaeste | anapaesta | anapaestum |
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | anapaestī | anapaestae | anapaesta |
| genitive | anapaestōrum | anapaestārum | anapaestōrum |
| dative | anapaestīs | anapaestīs | anapaestīs |
| accusative | anapaestōs | anapaestās | anapaesta |
| ablative | anapaestīs | anapaestīs | anapaestīs |
| vocative | anapaestī | anapaestae | anapaesta |
ănăpaestus, a, um, adj., = ἀνάπαιστος (struck back).
I. Pes, the metrical foot, anapœst:
˘˘¯ (i. e. a reversed dactyl), Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 37; id. de Or. 3, 47; also absol. without pes, id. Or. 56.—II. ănă-paestum, i, n. (sc. carmen), a poem in anapœsts, Cic. Tusc. 3, 24, 57; id. Or. 56; Gell. praef. 20.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
anapaestus adj.
, ἀνάπαιστος: pes, the anapaest (a metrical foot, ˘ ˘ ¯).—As subst m. (sc. pes), an anapaest. — As subst n. (sc. carmen), a poem in anapaests.
Origins
From Ancient Greek ἀνάπαιστος (anápaistos, “struck back, reversed; anapest”).
Descendants
- Catalananapest
- Englishanapæst
- Englishanapest
- Frenchanapeste
- GermanAnapäst
- Italiananapesto
- Portugueseanapesto
- Spanishanapesto
- Polishanapest
In English words that came into English from anapaestus
- anapestanapaestus