trochaic means composed of or relating to trochees, feet of one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 95 out of 100.
trochaic is pronounced /tɹoʊˈkeɪ.ɪk/.
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.
adj
- 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
- A poetical composition of this kind.
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