prosody
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *-ti ? Proto-Indo-European *próti, *préti Ancient Greek πρός (prós) Proto-Hellenic *awéidō Proto-Hellenic *-ā́ Proto-Hellenic *awoidā́ Ancient Greek ᾰ̓οιδή (ăoidḗ) Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek προσῳδῐ́ᾱ (prosōidĭ́ā)bor. Latin prosōdiabor. Middle French prosodieder. English prosody From Middle French prosodie, from Latin prosōdia, from Ancient Greek προσῳδία (prosōidía, “song sung to music; pronunciation of syllable”), from πρός (prós, “to”) + ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).
Definitions
The study of rhythm, intonation, stress, and related attributes in speech.
- An accurate acquaintance with the Prosody and Metres of the Greek Language is so necessary an accompaniment of true scholarship, that any attempt to advocate its claims to the notice of the student would be entirely superfluous.
- The aim of this book is to answer the question WHAT DID GREEK PROSODY SOUND LIKE? The study of prosody stands at the intersection of a number of quite disparate disciplines, as illustrated in the diagram overleaf.
The study of poetic meter
The study of poetic meter; the patterns of sounds and rhythms in verse.
- But the system of prosody in Samson plainly forbids extrametrical syllables in the midst of the line, and there is certainly no other example.
The neighborhood
Derived
aprosody, dysprosody, macroprosody, microprosody, prosodeme, prosodic, prosodification, prosodist
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for prosody. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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