English

Noun

scazon ‎(plural scazons)

1. A limping satiric meter in classical verse.
2. A iambic trimeter ending with a trochee or spondee.

See also

• choliamb
• Choliamb on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek σκάζων ‎(skázōn, “limping”), the present active participle of σκάζω ‎(skázō, “I limp”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈska.zoːn/

Noun

scazōn m ‎(genitive scazontis); third declension

1. scazon (an iambic trimeter, with a spondee or trochee in the last foot)
   • AD 86–103, Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrammaton, book I, epigram xcvi, lines 1–3:

     Si non molestum est teque non piget, scazon, // Nostro rogamus pauca verba Materno // Dicas in aurem sic ut audiat solus.

   • ibidem, book VII, epigram xxvi, line 1 and 10 (identical):

     Apollinarem conveni meum, Scazon.

   • AD 103–107, Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Epistulae, book V, letter x: “C. Plinius Suetonio Tranquillo suo s.”, § 2:

     Sum et ipse in edendo haesitator, tu tamen meam quoque cunctationem tarditatemque vicisti. Proinde aut rumpe iam moras aut cave ne eosdem istos libellos, quos tibi hendecasyllabi nostri blanditiis elicere non possunt, convicio scazontes extorqueant.

Declension

Third declension, Greek type, nominative singular in -ōn. Alternative genitive singular and plural and accusative plural may be attested or may be reconstructed by lexicographers due to scazōn having been imported from the Ancient Greek masculine present active participle.

Synonyms

• (scazon): chōliambus

Descendants

• English: scazon

References

• scāzon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “scāzōn”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 1,400/2.
• “scazōn” on page 1,700/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)