troche

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See the silva and versos sueltos under Strophes Whether normal Spanish verse has, or ever had, binary movement, with the occasional substitution of a "troche" for an "iambic," or vice-versa, is in dispute.

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  1. noun A small, circular medicinal lozenge; a pastille.

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  • “The phrase Novelties ; Souvenirs entranced her with their trochaic lilt,” Nabokov writes in Lolita ; trochaic referring to the Greek dimeter, but also containing the echo of troche, a circular pill or tablet taken as an anodyne, its shape derived from trokhos, the wheel. —  FSF,August2004
  • It is being done in two troches and the first troche is complete. —  Healthcare Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
  • Comments: 8 tylko te skrzydła tak troche nie widać D8 sorry for my bad english jak to sie nie udalo to ja jestem ksiedzem xD przesliczne a ile pracy wlozone Czemu się nie udało? —  Popular in the last 8 hours
  • Poniewaz wlozylem w ten skrypt troche pracy, prosze przy wykorzystywaniu listy w innych skryptach / aplikacjach o uwzglednienie tworcy pierwowzoru. —  KDE-Apps.org Content
  • Pogoda byla piekna wiec moglismy sobie troche poleniuchowac nad rzeka. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
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  1. Back-formation from Middle English trocis, troches (taken as pl. ), from Old French trocisse, from Late Latin trochiscus, from Greek trokhiskos, diminutive of trokhos, wheel, from trekhein, to run.

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  1. from New Latin *trochus, a circular tablet, from Greek τροχός, a round cake, a pill: see trochus. The word troche, for which no corresponding forms are found in the Roman languages (they use, instead, forms corresponding to the diminutive trochisk, q. v.), seems to have been formed in English directly from the New Latin or Greek In the absence of a vernacular pronunciation and of obvious analogies, various pronunciations have been given to it: (a) trōch, as if from a F. *troche, not found in this sense (though existing in the plural, as a hunting-term, troches, fumets, the (round) droppings of deer); (b) trōsh, supposed to be a more exact rendering of the assumed F. *troche; (c) trōk, an English accommodation of the New Latin *trochus (trō′kus), Greek τροχός; (d) trō′ke, an erroneous pronunciation now common, apparently due to confusion with trochee, or to a notion that the word is New Latin *troche, from Greek τροχή (which exists only as a by-form of τρόχος, course). (e) A more exact English form of the Greek term would be *troch (trok), after the analogy of stich, the only other instance, and that technical or rare, of an English monosyllable from a Greek word ending in -χ- ος (other instances are polysyllables, as distich, tetrastich, acrostic for *acrostich, etc.).
  2. from Old French trocher, branch. Cf. troching.
 

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