ditrochean
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Etymology edit
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ditrochean (not comparable)
- (linguistics) Consisting of two trochees.
- 1951, AH Ashcroft, “Vergil's Hexameter Line”, in Greece and Rome, volumes 20-22, page 110:
- As has been said above, the quadrisyllable is hard to pronounce without giving to the ear a ditrochean sound.
- 1976, Albert Ross Eckler, Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics:
- Among adjectival forms, "dactylic" is dactylic in one pronunciation and " ditrochean" (why not "ditrochaic" ?) is ditrochean.