metrical foot

English

Etymology

Calque of Latin pēs metricus.

Noun

metrical foot (plural metrical feet)

1. (prosody) The basic unit of the underlying rhythm of verse.

Related terms

• metric foot

Translations

basic unit of verse

• Catalan: peu (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 韻腳 / 韵脚 (wan⁶ goek³)

  Mandarin: 韻腳 / 韵脚 (zh) (yùnjiǎo)

• Danish: versefod/versfod c (versefødder/versfødder pl)
• Dutch: versvoet (nl) m
• Esperanto: verspiedo
• Estonian: värsijalg
• Faroese: ørindisfótur m
• Finnish: poljento (fi), runojalka (fi)
• French: pied (fr) m
• Galician: pé (gl) m
• German: Versfuß (de) m
• Hungarian: versláb (hu)
• Icelandic: bragliður m, kveða (is) f
• Irish: troigh f
• Italian: piede (it) m
• Low German: Versfaut (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
• Norman: pid m
• Norwegian: versefot m
• Persian: وتد (fa) (vatad)
• Polish: stopa (pl) f
• Portuguese: pé (pt) m
• Russian: стопа́ (ru) f (stopá)
• Scots: fit
• Spanish: pie (es) m
• Swedish: versfot (sv) c, fot (sv) c

See also

• amphibrach
• anapest
• dactyl
• iamb
• spondee
• trochee