Noun: trochee
| Singular | trochee |
| Plural | trochees |
Sample Sentences
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‘He made us read James Fenton on the genius of the trochee.’ [2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 152:]
Nouns inflected like trochee
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French trochée, via Latin trochaeus from the Ancient Greek τροχαῖος (trokhaîos), derived from τρέχω (trékhō, “run”). See: French Nouns '
trochée', Latin Nouns '
trochaeus'.
Verbs referencing "trochee"
Finnish Nouns
trokee.