τρίβραχυς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

A substantive in elliptical use for τρῐ́βρᾰχῠς [πούς] (tríbrakhus [poús], “[a metrical foot] consisting of three short syllables”) — written in full in an interpolation to the Τέχνη Ῥητορική of Dionysius of Halicarnassus — formed from τρῐ- (tri-, “three”) +‎ βρᾰχῠ́ς (brakhús, “short”).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

τρῐ́βρᾰχῠς • (tríbrakhus) m (genitive τρῐβρᾰ́χεος); third declension

  1. (prosody) tribrach (metrical foot comprising three short syllables)
    • Arcad. 40
    • Hephaestio, Collected Works 3.2
    • Choerob., in Theod. 1.232.H.
    • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, The Arrangement of Words 17:
      ὁ μὲν γὰρ ἐξ ἁπασῶν βραχειῶν συνεστώς, καλούμενος δὲ ὑπό τινων χορεῖος τρίβραχυς πούς, οὗ παράδειγμα τοιόνδε
      ho mèn gàr ex hapasôn brakheiôn sunestṓs, kaloúmenos dè hupó tinōn khoreîos tríbrakhus poús, hoû parádeigma toiónde

Declension
Third declension of ὁ τρῐ́βρᾰχῠς; τοῦ τρῐβρᾰ́χεος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ τρῐ́βρᾰχῠς
ho tríbrakhus		 τὼ τρῐβρᾰ́χει
tṑ tribrákhei		 οἱ τρῐβρᾰ́χεις
hoi tribrákheis
Genitive τοῦ τρῐβρᾰ́χεος
toû tribrákheos		 τοῖν τρῐβρᾰχέοιν
toîn tribrakhéoin		 τῶν τρῐβρᾰ́χεων
tôn tribrákheōn
Dative τῷ τρῐβρᾰ́χει
tôi tribrákhei		 τοῖν τρῐβρᾰχέοιν
toîn tribrakhéoin		 τοῖς τρῐβρᾰ́χεσῐ / τρῐβρᾰ́χεσῐν
toîs tribrákhesi(n)
Accusative τὸν τρῐ́βρᾰχῠν
tòn tríbrakhun		 τὼ τρῐβρᾰ́χει
tṑ tribrákhei		 τοὺς τρῐβρᾰ́χεις
toùs tribrákheis
Vocative τρῐ́βρᾰχῠ
tríbrakhu		 τρῐβρᾰ́χει
tribrákhei		 τρῐβρᾰ́χεις
tribrákheis
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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