The corpus record — Latin

trochaeus

trochaeus · m

A metrical foot of two syllables

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Where it lives

Epilogus 1 · 74.07/10k
Orator 5 · 2.7/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Institutio Oratoria 11 · 0.64/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k

What it meant

trŏchaeus — Lewis & Short

trŏchaeus, i, m., = troxai=os (cf.

Mart. Cap. 9, § 988).

I A metrical foot of two syllables, a long and a short (— ˘), a trochee, Cic. de Or. 3, 47, 182; Quint. 9, 4, 80; Prud. stef. 8 praef.—

II Another name for the tribrachys, a metrical foot of three short syllables (˘ ˘ ˘), a tribrach, Cic. Or. 57, 193; Quint. 9, 4, 82.

In the wild

trochaeo Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.105
trochaeus Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.106
trochaei Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 23.25
trochaeis Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.135
trochaeum Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.80
trochaeum Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.88

6 of 20 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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