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trocheus

trocheus is the archaic form of trochee.

Meaning of trochee

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

Forms of trocheus

pluraltrochei

Origin of trocheus

From Latin trochaeus, from Ancient Greek τροχαῖος (trokhaîos), from τροχός (trokhós) + -αῖος (-aîos), from τρέχω (trékhō, “run”).

Questions about trocheus

What is trocheus the archaic form of?
Trocheus is the archaic form of trochee.

Words near trocheus in the dictionary

  1. trochees
  2. trochei
  3. trochelminth
  4. trochelminths
  5. troches
  6. trocheus
  7. Trochez
  8. Trochezes
  9. trochi
  10. trochid
  11. trochids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trocheus (page history and authors); trochee (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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