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trochee

[ troh-kee ]

noun

, Prosody.
  1. a foot of two syllables, a long followed by a short in quantitative meter, or a stressed followed by an unstressed in accentual meter. :


trochee

/ ˈtrəʊkiː /

noun

  1. prosody a metrical foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short ( ) Compare iamb
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of trochee1

1580–90; < Latin trochaeus < Greek ( poùs ), trochaîos running (foot), equivalent to troch- (variant stem of tréchein to run) + -aios adj. suffix
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Word History and Origins

Origin of trochee1

C16: via Latin from Greek trokhaios pous , literally: a running foot, from trekhein to run
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Example Sentences

A Trochee is a two-syllable foot accented on the first syllable.

Antispast, an′ti-spast, n. in metre, a foot composed of an iambus and a trochee.

It will be noted that the dactyl is very closely related in expression to the trochee, and the anapest to the iambic.

The trochee seems in general to indicate an outpouring of emotion or sudden burst of feeling too strong for control.

It would be impossible for him to talk in a steady, straight-forward iambic, or even in the hesitating, emotional trochee.

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