Hypertext Webster Gateway: "spondee"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Spondee \Spon"dee\, n. [L. spondeus, Gr. ? (sc. ?), fr. ? a
drink offering, libation, fr. ? to pour out, make a libation:
cf. F. spond['e]e. So called because at libations slow,
solemn melodies were used, chiefly in this meter.] (pros.)
A poetic foot of two long syllables, as in the Latin word
l[=e]g[=e]s.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
spondee
n : a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables
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