Homeromastix

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὁμηρομάστῑξ (Homēromástīx).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [hɔ.meː.rɔˈmas.tiːks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [o.me.roˈmas.t̪iks]

Homēromastīx m sg (genitive Homēromastīgis); third declension

1. An epithet of Zoilus: an Ancient Greek grammarian who was critical of Homer.
   • c. 80 BCE – 15 BCE, Vitruvius, De arquitectura 7.8.2:

     Īnsequentibus annīs ā Macedoniā Zōilus, quī adoptāvit cognōmen, ut Homēromastīx vocitārētur, […]

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Third-declension noun, singular only.

Homēromastīx m (genitive Homēromastīgis); third declension

1. any censorious critic.
   • 23 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Natural History Pr.28.3:

     Ego plānē meīs adicī posse multa cōnfiteor, nec hīs solīs, sed et omnibus quōs ēdidī, ut obiter caveam istōs Homēromastīgas (ita enim vērius dīxerim), […]

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Third-declension noun.

• “Hŏmērŏmastix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Hŏmērŏmastīx in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.