cratinean

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Of or pertaining to the Greek comic poet Cratinus, who lived about 520-423 b. c.: as, Cratinean verse or meter.
2. n. A logaœdic meter frequent in Greek comedy, composed of a first Glyconic and a trochaic tetrapody catalectic, the first foot of the latter being treated like a basis—that is, having both syllables common: thus
3. n. See Eupolidean, n.