‖ senarius Prosody.
(siːˈnɛərɪəs)
Pl. senarii.
[L. sēnārius adj., consisting of six each, f. sēnī adj. pl. six each, f. sex six; used subst. by ellipsis of versus verse.]
(More fully, iambic senarius.) A (Greek or Latin) verse consisting of six feet, each of which is either an iambus or some foot which the law of the verse permits to be substituted; an iambic trimeter.
| 1540 Palsgr. Acolastus i. i. C iij b, All the versis of this scene be Senarii. 1811 Elmsley in Edin. Rev. XIX. 80 The fifth foot of a tragic senarius cannot be a spondee, except in three cases. 1832 [see pythiambic]. 1869 H. Snow Theocritus, Epigr. xvi. Notes (1873) 219 The lines are alternately iambic senarii and hendecasyllables. |