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trochaic

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Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
16
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/tɹoʊˈkeɪ.ɪk/ (UK)
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/tɹoʊˈkeɪ.ɪk/ (UK) · /tɹəˈkeɪ.ɪk/ (US)

Definition of trochaic

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Composed of or relating to trochees, feet of one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.
    “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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adj

  1. (not-comparable)Composed of or relating to trochees, feet of one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.
    “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.”

noun

  1. A poetical composition of this kind.

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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.

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