scazon

From Latin scāzon, from Ancient Greek σκάζων (skázōn), from σκάζω (skázō, “I limp”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈskeɪzɒn/, /ˈskeɪzən/

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scazon (plural scazons or scazontes)

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

   Synonyms: choliamb, limping iamb

• Choliamb on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈskaz.zoːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈskad̪.d̪͡z̪on]

scazōn m (genitive scazontis or scazontos); 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.

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, variant with nominative singular in -ōn).

• (scazon): chōliambus

• → English: scazon

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