spondee

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A word or metrical foot of two syllables, either both long or both stressed
{n} a foot in poetry of two long syllables
a metrical foot consisting of two accented syllables / ' ' / An example of a spondaic word is "hog-wild " The di-spondee / ' ' ' ' / is a Classical Greek and Latin metrical foot
A two syllable foot that is comprised of two accented syllables Usually this is done in poetry by using one syllable words (ie, rock, bird, snow) in a row This is the opposite of the anapestic foot
A poetic foot of two long syllables, as in the Latin word lēgēs
A metrical foot of two syllables, both of which are long (or stressed)
a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables
{i} foot consisting of two long or accented syllables (Poetry)
- a metrical foot consisting of two stressed syllables
spondaic
Referring to poetry with the metrical pattern with a foot composed of two stressed syllables
spondaic
one which has a spondee instead of a dactyl in the fifth foot
spondaic
Containing spondees in excess; marked by spondees; as, a spondaic hexameter, i
spondaic
Or of pertaining to a spondee; consisting of spondees
spondaic
of or consisting of spondees; "spondaic hexameter
spondee

    Silbentrennung

    spon·dee

    Aussprache

    Etymologie

    [ 'spän-"dE ] (noun.) 14th century. From Latin spondēus (“spondee”), from Ancient Greek σπονδεῖος (spondeios).
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