Homeromastix

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὁμηρομᾰ́στῑξ (Homēromắstīx, Ὅμηρος (Hómēros, “Homer”) +‎ μᾰ́στῑξ (mắstīx, “scourge”), literally “Homer's scourge”). Compare homēromastīges.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [hɔ.meː.rɔˈmas.tiːks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [o.me.roˈmas.tiks]

Homēromastīx m sg (genitive Homēromastīgis or Homēromastīgos); third declension

1. an epithet of Zoilus: a Thracian grammarian who was a censorious critic of Homer
   • c. 80 BCE – 15 BCE, Vitruvius, De architectura 7.8.2:

     Īnsequentibus annīs ā Macedoniā Zōilus, quī adoptāvit cognōmen, ut Homēromastīx vocitārētur, […]

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Third-declension noun (non-Greek-type or Greek-type, normal variant), singular only.

• “Hŏmērŏmastix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Hŏmērŏmastīx”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.