Definitions for Alcaic

Alcaic Al·ca·ic

Spelling: [al-key-ik]
IPA: /ælˈkeɪ ɪk/

Alcaic is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in Alcaic (aaccil).

Definitions for Alcaic

noun

  1. Alcaics, Alcaic verses or strophes.

adjective

  1. pertaining to Alcaeus or to certain meters or a form of strophe or stanza used by, or named after, him.

Origin of Alcaic

1620-30; Late Latin Alcaicus Greek Alkaïkós, equivalent to Alka(îos) Alcaeus + -ikos -ic

Examples for Alcaic

He used to say, “The Horatian Alcaic is, perhaps, the stateliest metre except the Virgilian hexameter at its best.”

As a boy of sixteen, he wrote verses in the Alcaic and Asclepiadeian measures, and soon acquired a considerable mastery over them.

The model of this variety is not to be found in any of the Alcaic or Tyrtæan remains.

On the other hand, we can find scarcely an ode in the Sapphic or Alcaic metre, which does not clearly betray its modern origin.

Of these, four are in hendecasyllabics, one in the Alcaic and one in the Sapphic stanza.

Somewhat as in the Greek Alcaic, where the penultimate line seems to lift and suspend the wave that falls over in the last.

Virgilius Mars wrote in hexameters; Horatius Flaccus in Alcaic, sapphic, and anapestic verse.

Thus, there is as much artificiality about a stanza of Chinese verse as there is about an Alcaic stanza in Latin.

Word Value for Alcaic
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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