alexandrine en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˌælɪkˈsændriːn/
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Etymology
From Middle French alexandrin. So called from its use in old French poems on Alexander the Great (Roman d'Alexandre, c. 1177).
Meanings
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A line of poetic meter having twelve syllables, usually divided into two or three equal parts.
The dominant metre in Les Fleurs du Mal is the twelve-syllable alexandrine, the defining metre of French versification, with the eight-syllable line a distant runner-up and the ten-syllable line barely visible.
2005, Rachel Killick, “Baudelaire's versification: conservative or radical?”, in Rosemary Lloyd, editor, The Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 52:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| alexandrines | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| Alexandrine | alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Polish alexandrine · Czech alexandrine · French alexandrine
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Translations (17)
pl aleksandryn (line of a twelve-syllable poetic meter) · scn xannarinu (line of a twelve-syllable poetic meter) · ro alexandrin (line of a twelve-syllable poetic meter) · pt alexandrino (line of a twelve-syllable poetic meter) · sv alexandrin (line of a twelve-syllable poetic meter) · it alessandrino (line of a twelve-syllable poetic meter) · eo aleksandro (line of a twelve-syllable poetic meter) · ja アレクサンドラン (line of a twelve-syllable poetic meter) · nl alexandrijn (line of a twelve-syllable poetic meter) · de Alexandriner (line of a twelve-syllable poetic meter) · ca alexandrí (line of a twelve-syllable poetic meter) · cs alexandrín (line of a twelve-syllable poetic meter) · fr alexandrin (line of a twelve-syllable poetic meter) · fi aleksandriini (line of a twelve-syllable poetic meter) · ru александрийский стих (line of a twelve-syllable poetic meter) · scn sciannarinu (line of a twelve-syllable poetic meter) · es alejandrino (line of a twelve-syllable poetic meter)