Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Trochee"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Trochee \Tro"chee\, n. [L. trochaeus, Gr. ? (sc.?), from ?
running, from ? to run. Cf. {Troche}, {Truck} a wheel.]
(Pros.)
A foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short,
as in the Latin word ante, or the first accented and the
second unaccented, as in the English word motion; a choreus.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
trochee
n : a metrical unit with stressed-stressed-unstressed syllables
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