metrical foot

English

Etymology

Calque of Latin pēs metricus.

Noun

metrical foot (plural metrical feet)

(prosody) The basic unit of the underlying rhythm of verse.

Related terms

metric foot

Translations

basic unit of verse

Catalan: peu (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 韻腳／韵脚 (wan⁶ goek³)

Mandarin: 韻腳／韵脚 (zh) (yùnjiǎo)
Danish: versefod/versfod c (versefødder/versfødder pl)
Dutch: versvoet (nl) m
Esperanto: verspiedo
Estonian: värsijalg
Faroese: ørindisfótur m
Finnish: poljento (fi), runojalka (fi)
French: pied (fr) m
Galician: pé (gl) m
German: Versfuß (de) m
Hungarian: versláb (hu)
Icelandic: bragliður m, kveða (is) f
Irish: troigh f
Italian: piede (it) m
Low German: Versfaut (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
Norman: pid m
Norwegian: versefot m
Persian: وتد (fa) (vatad)
Polish: stopa (pl) f
Portuguese: pé (pt) m
Russian: стопа́ (ru) f (stopá)
Scots: fit
Spanish: pie (es) m
Swedish: versfot (sv) c, fot (sv) c

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