trochaic
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editEither via the French trochaïque or directly from its etymon, the Latin trochaicus, from the Ancient Greek τροχαικός (trokhaikós), from τροχαῖος (trokhaîos), whence trochee.
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edittrochaic (not comparable)
- 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, , →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.
Translations
editreferring to poetry composed of trochees
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Noun
edittrochaic (plural trochaics)
- A poetical composition of this kind.
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