n. Prosody a foot consisting of two long (or stressed) syllables.
Etymology: ME f. OF spondee or L spondeus f. Gk spondeios (pous foot) f. sponde libation, as being characteristic of music accompanying libations
n. Prosody a foot consisting of two long (or stressed) syllables.
Etymology: ME f. OF spondee or L spondeus f. Gk spondeios (pous foot) f. sponde libation, as being characteristic of music accompanying libations
Oxford English vocab. Оксфордский английский словарь. 2012