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trochee

English

Alternative forms

  • troch. (abbreviation)
  • trocheus (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from French trochée, from the Latin trochaeus, from the Ancient Greek ???????? (trokhaîos).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?t???ki/
  • Rhymes: -??ki

Noun

trochee (plural trochees)

  1. A metrical foot in verse consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.

Related terms

  • trochaic

Translations

See also

  • iamb

Further reading

  • trochee on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

trochee From the web:

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iamb

English

Etymology

From French iambe in the mid-1800s, from Latin iambus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (íambos). Displaced iambus which shares the same classical origin.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?a??m/, /?a??æm/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /?a??æm/

Noun

iamb (plural iambs)

  1. A metrical foot in verse consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

Synonyms

  • iambus, jambus

Translations

See also

  • trochee

Anagrams

  • ambi-, bami, bima, imba

Romanian

Etymology

From French ïambe, from Latin iambus.

Noun

iamb m (plural iambi)

  1. iamb

Declension

iamb From the web:

  • what iambic pentameter
  • what's iambic meter
  • what's iambic tetrameter
  • what iamb means
  • what iambic meaning
  • iambic what does it mean
  • what does iambic mean
  • what does iambic pentameter mean
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