trochaic

Meanings

Adjective

• Composed of or relating to trochees, feet of one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.

Noun

• A poetical composition of this kind.

Origin

• Either via the French trochaïque or directly from its etymon, the Latin trochaicus, from the Ancient Greek τροχαικός, from τροχαῖος, whence trochee.