trochaic

English

Alternative forms

• troch. (abbreviation)
• trochaick (obsolete)

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹoʊˈkeɪ.ɪk/

Adjective

trochaic (not comparable)

1. Composed of or relating to trochees, feet of one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.
   • 2022, Marianne Bakró-Nagy, “Consonant gradation”, in Marianne Bakró-Nagy, Johanna Laakso, Elena Skribnik, editors, The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages, Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 861:

     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.

Translations

referring to poetry composed of trochees

• Danish: trokæisk
• Finnish: trokeinen (fi)
• French: trochaïque (fr) m or f
• German: trochäisch
• Greek: τροχαϊκός (el) (trochaïkós)
• Hungarian: trochaikus
• Russian: трохеи́ческий (ru) (troxeíčeskij)
• Serbo-Croatian: tròhējskī (sh)
• Swedish: trokeisk

Noun

trochaic (plural trochaics)

1. A poetical composition of this kind.

Anagrams

• thoracic