homeromastiges

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὁμηρομᾰ́στῑγες (homēromắstīges), from Ὁμηρομᾰ́στῑξ (Homēromắstīx, Ὅμηρος (Hómēros, “Homer”) +‎ μᾰ́στῑξ (mắstīx, “scourge”), literally “Homer's scourge”, whence Latin Homēromastīx), an epithet given to Zoilus, a Thracian grammarian who was a censorious critic of Homer.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [hɔ.meː.rɔ.masˈtiː.ɡɛs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [o.me.ro.masˈtiː.d͡ʒes]

homēromastīges m pl or f pl (genitive homēromastīgum); third declension

1. (in the plural, metonymic, literary) censorious critics
   • 23 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Natural History Pr.28.3:

     ego plānē meīs adicī posse multa cōnfiteor, nec hīs solīs, sed et omnibus quōs ēdidī, ut obiter caveam istōs homēromastīgas (ita enim vērius dīxerim), […]

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Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant), plural 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.