trochee

English

Alternative forms

• troch. (abbreviation)
• trocheus (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from French trochée, via Latin trochaeus from the Ancient Greek τροχαῖος (trokhaîos), derived from τρέχω (trékhō, “run”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹəʊki/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹoʊ.ki/
  • Homophone: troche
• Rhymes: -əʊki

Noun

trochee (plural trochees)

1. A metrical foot in verse consisting of a stressed or heavy syllable followed by an unstressed or light syllable.
   • 2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 152:

     ‘He made us read James Fenton on the genius of the trochee.’

Related terms

• trochaic

Translations

a metrical foot

• Catalan: troqueu m
• Czech: trochej
• Danish: trokæ c
• Esperanto: troĥeo, trokeo
• Faroese: rættur tvíliður m
• Finnish: trokee (fi)
• French: trochée (fr) m
• Galician: troqueo m
• German: Trochäus (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: τροχαῖος m (trokhaîos)

• Hungarian: trocheus (hu)
• Ido: trokeo (io)
• Polish: trochej (pl) m
• Portuguese: troqueu m, coreu m
• Russian: трохе́й (ru) m (troxéj), хоре́й (ru) m (xoréj)
• Serbo-Croatian: tròhēj (sh) m
• Spanish: troqueo m
• Swedish: troké (sv) c

See also

• iamb

Further reading

• trochee on Wikipedia.Wikipedia