troch.

Noun

trochee (plural trochees)

1. A metrical foot in verse consisting of a stressed or heavy syllable followed by an unstressed or light syllable.
   • ‘He made us read James Fenton on the genius of the trochee.’2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 152

Adjective

trochaic (not comparable)

1. 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.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...

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