trō(ˌ)kē noun
( -s )
Etymology: French trochēe, from Latin trochaeus, from Greek trochaios ( pous ) running (foot), trochee, from trochaios running, from trochos running race, racecourse, from trechein to run; akin to Old Irish droch wheel, Lithuanian drožti to run quickly, Armenian durgn potter's wheel
: a prosodic foot of two syllables of which the first is long and the second short (as in Latin ante ) or the first stressed and the second unstressed (as in English motion ) — symbol -˘; compare iamb