prosodiac
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Moreover, unto him [Archilochus], as firſt inventour, are attributed the Epodes, Tetrameter, Iambicks, Procritique and Proſodiacks; […]"
- "Moreover, one of the most natural uses of verse would be to march by; and for this purpose the triple beat would not serve without a pause. This would lead us to the paroemiac or prosodiac, and to the well known theory of [Theodor] Bergk, or the slightly different theory of [Hermann] Usener."
- "Pers[ians] 694–696 = 700–702 may be regarded as consisting of two prosodiacs and a paroemiac. It is, however, better to scan the first two verses as ionic dimeters, retaining the paroemiac close, though a logaoedic rhythm […] often occurs at the end of a strophe. The assumption of ionics avoids the necessity of resolving the second arsis of the prosodiacs."
- "Prosodiacs normally start with double-short —◡◡— (d) and end with single-short —◡— (s)."
- "The proſodiac nome was ſung in honour of Mars, and was, they ſay, invented by Olympus."
- "Some verses, for instance, bear much stronger marks of an original spondaic rhythm than others of the same number of feet. There seem, for instance, to have been prosodiac and paroemiac verses based on the spondee."
Etymology
From Middle French prosodiaque and its etymon Late Latin prosōdiacus, from Koine Greek προσοδιακός (prosodiakós), from Ancient Greek προσόδιον (prosódion) + -ακός (-akós). By surface analysis, prosodi(on) + -ac.