Sapphic Definition
săfĭk
adjective
Of or relating to lesbianism.
American Heritage
Of Sappho.
Webster's New World
Designating or of certain meters or a form of stanza or strophe used by or named after Sappho, esp. a stanza of three lines, of five or six stresses each, followed by a short line.
Webster's New World
Webster's New World
Of, relating to, or being a verse characteristic of Sappho, containing 11 syllables and consisting of a trochee, a spondee or trochee, a dactyl, a trochee, and a spondee or trochee.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
noun
A Sapphic verse.
Webster's New World
Origin of Sapphic
From Ancient Greek Σαπφώ (Sapphō, “the Greek poet") + -ic.
From Wiktionary
After Sappho known for her homoerotic poetry
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Sapphic.
From Wiktionary
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