dochmius

From Latin dochmius, from Ancient Greek δόχμιος (dókhmios, “oblique; dochmius”).

dochmius (plural dochmii or dochmiuses)

1. (poetry) A metrical foot of five syllables used in Greek tragedy for highly anguished scenes. The metrical pattern is typically: short-long-long-short-long.
   • 1843, William O'Brien, The Ancient Rhythmical Art Recovered, page 6:

     Yet there is good reason to doubt the existence of any such; —good reason to think, that dochmiuses belong to the triple rhythm

   • 1910, R. J. Walker, Anti Mias: An Essay in Isometry, page 228:

     This chorus, which consists almost entirely of dochmii, is so corrupt as to present various problems of an almost insoluble character, although portions of it have yielded to the brilliant emendatory efforts of Hermann.

   • 1912, John Williams White, The Verse of Greek Comedy, page 296:

     Every dochmius is catalectic, representing an original phrase of nine primary times.

• dochmiac
• hypodochmius

From Ancient Greek δόχμιος (dókhmios).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdokʰ.mi.us/, [ˈd̪ɔkʰmiʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdok.mi.us/, [ˈd̪ɔkmius]

dochmius m (genitive dochmiī or dochmī); second declension

1. dochmius (metrical foot)

Second-declension noun.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• “dochmius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dochmius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers