Horatian
/həˈɹeɪ.ʃən/adjective
Horatian is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to the Roman poet Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus; 65–8 BCE) or to his works or style” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-O-R-A-T-I-A-N and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 54 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does Horatian mean?
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to the Roman poet Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus; 65–8 BCE) or to his works or style.
There are three typical forms of ode: Horatian, Pindaric and irregular. Horatian odes follow the conventions of Horace, who deliberately imitated the Greek lyricists such as Alcaeus and Anacreon.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce Horatian?
- /həˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
Horatian has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Horatian.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is Horatian?
Horatian appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Horatian in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of or pertaining to the Roman poet Horace or to his works or style:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | horaciano |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does Horatian come from?
From Horace + -ian.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).