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Definition of senarius in English: senariusnounPlural senarii sɪˈnɛːrɪəssəˈnɛriəs Prosody A verse of six feet, especially an iambic trimeter. Example sentencesExamples - Preserving the iambic senarii proved too restrictive, so I switched to a vaguely anapaestic waltz rhythm and made up a tune that allowed our singer to put a comic pause, if she wished, before the final syllables at the end of each line.
- His fables, written in iambic senarii, consist of beast-tales based largely on ‘Aesop’, as well as jokes and instructive stories taken not only from Hellenistic collections but also from his own personal experience.
- In the tragic senarius the divisions of the sense normally coincide with the main divisions of the metrical structure.
Origin Mid 16th century: from Latin (see senary). Rhymes Aquarius, calcareous, Darius, denarius, gregarious, hilarious, multifarious, nefarious, omnifarious, precarious, Sagittarius, Stradivarius, temerarious, various, vicarious Definition of senarius in US English: senariusnounsəˈnerēəssəˈnɛriəs Prosody A Latin verse of six iambic feet. Example sentencesExamples - His fables, written in iambic senarii, consist of beast-tales based largely on ‘Aesop’, as well as jokes and instructive stories taken not only from Hellenistic collections but also from his own personal experience.
- In the tragic senarius the divisions of the sense normally coincide with the main divisions of the metrical structure.
- Preserving the iambic senarii proved too restrictive, so I switched to a vaguely anapaestic waltz rhythm and made up a tune that allowed our singer to put a comic pause, if she wished, before the final syllables at the end of each line.
Origin Mid 16th century: from Latin (see senary). |