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▪ I. trochee Pros.|ˈtrəʊkiː|
Also in Gr.-Lat. form 6 trocheus, 6–7 (9) trochæus.
[ad. L. trochæus, ad. Gr. τροχαῖος, prop. adj. (sc. πούς foot) running, tripping, f. τρόχος a running, course, f. τρέχειν to run; cf. F. trochée (1572 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
A metrical foot consisting of a long followed by a short syllable; in accentual verse, of an accented followed by an unaccented syllable. Also called choree.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. xiii. (Arb.) 133 For your Trocheus of a long and short ye haue these words mānĕr, brōkĕn, tākĕn, bōdiĕ, mēmbĕr, and a great many moe. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1259 A Trochæus was put in stead of a Pæon. 1603Daniel Def. Rhyme G j b, If we shold say the state of China, which neuer hard of Anapestiques, Trochies, & tribracques, were grosse, barbarous, and vnciuile. a1771Gray Corr. etc. (1843) 240 The measure..is Dimeter-lambic, but admits of a Trochee, Spondee, Amphibrachys, Anapæst, &c. in almost every place. 1803Coleridge Met. Feet i, Trochee trips from long to short.
†b. = tribrach. Obs. rare—1.
1586W. Webbe Eng. Poetrie (Arb.) 69 A foote of 3 sillables..is either simple or myxt. The simple is eyther Molossus, that is of three long,..or Trochæus, that is of 3 short.
▪ II. trochee, trochies
see troche n.2 |