logaoedic means of any metre rhythmically intermediate between ordinary speech (or prose) and song (or poetry), typically combining dactyls and trochees. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
logaoedic is pronounced /lɒɡəˈiːdɪk/.
Why “logaoedic” is a great word
LOGAOEDIC — [Adjective] Of a poetic metre rhythmically intermediate between ordinary speech and song, typically combining dactyls and trochees. From Latin logaoedicus, from Ancient Greek λογᾰοιδῐκός (logaoidikós), from λόγος (lógos, "speech, prose") + ἀοιδή (aoidḗ, "song") + -ῐκός (-ikós, "-ic"). Unlike "dactylic," which marches in uniform cadence, or "prosaic," which stands flatly in the field of the ordinary, logaoedic is the deliberate and artful hybrid. It is the cadence of a spell being muttered, the footfall of a walk that breaks into a skip, or the sound of a river whose current is both flowing water and submerged stone—a testament to the human voice, perpetually caught between the need to tell and the urge to sing.
Etymology
From Latin logaoedicus, from Ancient Greek λογᾰοιδῐκός (logăoidĭkós), from λόγος (lógos, “speech, prose”) + ἀοιδή (aoidḗ, “song”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, “-ic”).
adj
- Of any metre rhythmically intermediate between ordinary speech (or prose) and song (or poetry), typically combining dactyls and trochees.“Hence this metre was frequently used by the Æolians, and their strophes were principally formed by connecting logaœdic rhythms with trochees, iambi, and Æolic dactyls.”
noun
- Any logaoedic verse.“Anapæstic Logaœdics are identical in their rhythm with…Logaœdic Dactyls.”