SPONDEE


Meaning of SPONDEE in English

/spon"dee/ , n. Pros.

a foot of two syllables, both of which are long in quantitative meter or stressed in accentual meter.

[ 1350-1400; ME sponde spondeus spondeîos, deriv. of spondé libation ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .