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• epigramme

語源

From Middle French epigramme, from Latin epigramma, from Ancient Greek ἐπίγραμμα (epígramma, “inscription”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, 米国発音) IPA: /ˈɛpɪɡɹæm/

名詞

epigram (plural epigrams)

1. (obsolete) An inscription in stone.
2. A brief but witty saying.
3. A short, witty or pithy poem.
   • 1916, Ezra Pound, Lustra, The Three Poets:

     The second has written a sonnet
     upon the mutability of woman,
     And the third writes an epigram to Candidia.

派生語

関連する語

• epigrammatic
• epigrammatist
• epigraph

Further reading

• epigram on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Epigram in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

アナグラム

• primage