Hymenaic

Hymenaic, a. rare.

(haɪməˈneɪɪk)

[ad. L. hymenaicum, f. Gr. ὑµέναι-ος, f. Ὑµήν Hymen¹.]

lit. Of or pertaining to Hymen; used to invoke Hymen. Hymenaic dimeter (L. hymenaicum dimetrum), a dactylic dimeter acatalectic (–˘˘–˘˘).

(Described by the Latin grammarian Marius Plotius, who exemplifies it by the two Sapphic lines Ulenisacuµεν' Ulenisµήναον, ὦ τὸν ἀδώνιον, and the L. ‘mens sibi conscia’.)