dithyramb
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dithyramb
- /ˈdɪθ.ɪ.ɹæm/
Where it comes from
From Latin dithyrambus, from Ancient Greek δῑθύραμβος (dīthúrambos). According to the American Heritage Dictionary, it is of non-Indo-European origin (Pre-Greek substrate, Illyrian/Phrygian), related to θρίαμβος (thríambos) and ἴαμβος (íambos). Brandenstein also compares Sanskrit अङ्ग (aṅga, “member”).
noun dithyrambs
- A raucous and ardent choral hymn sung in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus. Now of the numerical constitution of the chorus before Aeschylus we know nothing; but to him, in the Suppliant Maidens at least, it was a happy coincidence that the myth gave to Danaüs fifty daughters, a number exactly equal to that of the chorus of the dithyramb, from which tragedy itself had sprun
- A poem or oration in the same style. While those who drown a truth’s empiric part In dithyramb or dogma turn frenetic; — Than whom no writer could be less poetic He left this lesson for all verse, all art.
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An impassioned speech; a rant.
During the seven decades that have elapsed since that distracted wife, mother, and blindly impassioned mistress threw herself beneath the wheels of the train - thus terminating, with a gesture symbolic of what already had happened to her soul, her tragedy of disorientation - a tumultuous and unremit
Similar: admonition, condemnation, diatribe, dithyramb, harangue, impugnation, j'accuse, jeremiad, philippic, polemic, rant, screed
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noun a choral hymn sung in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus
| Español | ditirambo |
|---|---|
| Français | dithyrambe |
| Deutsch | Dithyrambos |
| Italiano | ditirambo |
| Ελληνικά | διθύραμβος dithýramvos |
| Русский | дифира́мб difirámb |
noun a poem or oration in the same style
| Français | dithyrambe |
|---|---|
| Русский | дифира́мб difirámb |
Talk about this word "dithyramb." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/dithyramb. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. dithyramb. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/dithyramb "dithyramb." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/dithyramb.Cite this
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