Translation for 'trochee' from English to Bulgarian

trochee {noun}

хорей {м}лит.

• An adonic (Latin: "adoneus") is a unit of Aeolic verse, a five-syllable metrical foot consisting of a dactyl followed by a trochee.
• Another name formerly used for a trochee was a choree (...), or choreus.
• In the prosody of English and other modern European languages, "choriamb" is sometimes used to describe four-syllable sequence of the pattern stressed-unstressed-unstressed-stressed (again, a trochee followed by an iamb): for example, "over the hill", "under the bridge", and "what a mistake!
• The eleventh, or penultimate, line inverts the first foot, so that it contains the same number of syllables, but the first two are a trochee.
• It is written in trochee with alternating feet 4-3, and in long lines to compensate for the endings for men, and in short lines - for women.

• Cicero writes of one occasion when the use of a certain clausula (a dichoreus or double trochee – u – x) by the orator Carbo the Younger was so effective that the audience all gave a shout.
• Richard Middleton It is derived here from its theoretic unsyncopated form, a repeated trochee (¯ ˘ ¯ ˘).
• In a trochaic pair, each word is a trochee, with the first syllable stressed and the second syllable unstressed.
• In this style, the line often begins with spondees (– –) instead of a trochee (– u). There is usually a close match between the metrical rhythm and the word accent.
• This comment about the absence of anapest and trochee has been interpreted to mean that the music was not based on the usual “walking” meters, since the chorus sings the stasimon while remaining in the orchestra.

• To this day, each half-foot can also begin with a trochee; this is called choriambic, by comparison to its ancient metrical counterpart.
• The first five feet of the line are dactyls; the sixth a trochee.
• Both meters in circle 2 make use of "biceps" elements, in which a pair of short syllables can be replaced by a long one (uu); meters of circle 4 all have one place in the hemistich (half-line) where the "watid" is a trochee (– u) instead of an iamb (u –); the meters of circle 5 have short feet of PK PK or KP KP.