Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - hexameter

n. a line or verse of six metrical feet. Phrases and idioms dactylic hexameter a hexameter having five dactyls and a spondee or trochee, any of the first four feet, and sometimes the fifth, being replaceable by a spondee. Derivatives hexametric adj. hexametrist n. Etymology: ME f. L f. Gk hexametros (as HEXA-, metron measure) HEXANE n. Chem. a liquid hydrocarbon of the alkane series. Usage Chem. formula: C6H14. Etymology: HEXA- + -ANE