The corpus record — Latin

pentameter

pentameter · m

a pentameter

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Where it lives

Institutio Oratoria 2 · 0.12/10k

What it meant

pentămĕter — Lewis & Short

pentămĕter, tri, m., = penta/metros (containing five metrical feet),

I a pentameter: in pentametri medio, Quint. 9, 4, 98; so id. 9, 4, 109: heroicus, Diom. p. 506 P.: pentametrum elegum, id. p. 502 ib.

In the wild

pentametri Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.98
pentametri Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.109

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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