prosody
/ˈpɹɒsədi/PRAH-suh-dee
/ˈpɹɑsədi/PRAH-suh-dee
Meaningsong added to
Common meaning: the patterns of rhythm in verse
- prostoward
- oda song, a sung poemLiddell & Scott, Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon (1889), p. 85 · scan
- ynoun ending
‘toward’ + ‘a song, a sung poem’ → prosody
Journey through time
- Greekπροσῳδία‘a song sung to music’source
- Englishprosody‘the patterns of rhythm in verse’ · today
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Greek ᾠδή ‘a song, a sung poem’.
Roots
- ᾠδή Greek “a song, a sung poem”
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