ditrochean

English

Etymology

di- +‎ trochee +‎ -an

Adjective

ditrochean (not comparable)

  1. (linguistics) Consisting of two trochees.
    • 1951, AH Ashcroft, “Vergil's Hexameter Line”, in Greece and Rome, volumes 20-22, page 110:
      As has been said above, the quadrisyllable is hard to pronounce without giving to the ear a ditrochean sound.
    • 1976, Albert Ross Eckler, Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics:
      Among adjectival forms, "dactylic" is dactylic in one pronunciation and " ditrochean" (why not "ditrochaic" ?) is ditrochean.

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