trochaic

English

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Etymology

Either via the French trochaïque or directly from its etymon, the Latin trochaicus, from the Ancient Greek τροχαικός (trokhaikós), from τροχαῖος (trokhaîos), whence trochee.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɹoʊˈkeɪ.ɪk/

Adjective

trochaic (not comparable)

  1. Composed of or relating to trochees, feet of one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.
    • 2022, Marianne Bakró-Nagy, “Consonant gradation”, in Marianne Bakró-Nagy, Johanna Laakso, Elena Skribnik, editors, The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages, Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 861:
      Therefore, in precisely these languages a mechanism could be maintained which preserves the contrast between stressed and unstressed syllables in the trochaic word structure pattern (see 42.3.1) by weakening the onset of a longer or weightier unstressed syllable.

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Noun

trochaic (plural trochaics)

  1. (poetry) A poetical composition of this kind.

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