Webster's 1828 Dictionary
SAPPHIC
a.saf'ic. Pertaining to Sappho, a Grecian poetess; as sapphic odes; Sapphic verse. The Sapphic verse consists of eleven syllables in five feet, of which the first, fourth and fifth are trochees, the second a spondee, and the third a dactyl, in the first three lines of each stanza, with a fourth consisting only of a dactyl and a spondee.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
SAPPHIC
Sap "phic, a. Etym: [L. Sapphicus, Gr.
1. Of or pertaining to Sappho, the Grecian poetess; as, Sapphic odes; Sapphic verse.
2. (Pros.)
Defn: Belonging to, or in the manner of, Sappho; -- said of a certain kind of verse reputed to have been invented by Sappho, consisting of five feet, of which the first, fourth, and fifth are trochees, the second is a spondee, and the third a dactyl.
SAPPHIC
SAPPHIC Sap "phic, n. (Pros.)
Defn: A Sapphic verse.
New American Oxford Dictionary
sapphic
sap phic |ˈsafik ˈsæfɪk | ▶adjective 1 formal or humorous of or relating to lesbians or lesbianism: sapphic lovers. 2 ( Sapphic ) of or relating to Sappho or her poetry. ▶plural noun (sapphics ) verse in a meter associated with Sappho. ORIGIN early 16th cent. ( sense 2 of the adjective ): from French saphique, via Latin from Greek Sapphikos, from Sapphō (see Sappho ).
Oxford Dictionary
sapphic
sapphic |ˈsafɪk | ▶adjective 1 formal or humorous relating to lesbians or lesbianism: sapphic lovers. 2 ( Sapphic ) relating to Sappho or her poetry. ▶plural noun (sapphics ) verse in a metre associated with Sappho. ORIGIN early 16th cent. (in sense 2 of the adjective ): from French saphique, via Latin from Greek Sapphikos, from Sapphō (see Sappho ).
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