Sapphic

(săf'ik), a. [Lat. Sapphicus, Gr. Σαπφικός.]

1. Pertaining to Sappho, a Grecian poetess; as, Sapphic odes; Sapphic verse.
2. (Pros.) Belonging to, or in the manner of, Sappho; — used of a certain kind of verse (said to have been invented by Sappho), consisting of five feet, of which the first, fourth, and fifth are trochees, the second a spondee, and the third a dactyl.