prosody

WOTD - 12 May 2008    

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Etymology

From Middle French prosodie, from Latin prosōdia, from Ancient Greek προσῳδία (prosōidía, “song sung to music; pronunciation of syllable”), from πρός (pros, “to”) + ᾠδή (ōidē, “song”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈpɹɒzədi/, /ˈpɹəʊzədi/, SAMPA: /"prQs.@.dI/
• (US) IPA: /ˈpɻɑsədi/

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Noun

prosody (plural prosodies)

1. (linguistics) The study of rhythm, intonation, stress, and related attributes in speech.
2. (poetry) The study of poetic meter; the patterns of sounds and rhythms in verse.

Derived terms

• prosodic

Translations

linguistics: study of rhythm and other attributes in speech

Chinese: Mandarin: 詩體學 (cmn), 诗体学 (cmn) (shītǐxué), 韻律學 (cmn), 韵律学 (cmn) (yùnlǜxué), 詩律學 (cmn), 诗律学 (cmn) (shīlǜxué) Dutch: prosodie (nl) f. Finnish: prosodia (fi)

German: Prosodie (de) f. Hungarian: verstan (hu) Polish: prozodia (pl) f. Romanian: prosodie (ro) f. Turkish: vezin (tr)

poetry: study of poetic meter etc

Chinese: Mandarin: 詩體學 (cmn), 诗体学 (cmn) (shītǐxué), 韻律學 (cmn), 韵律学 (cmn) (yùnlǜxué), 詩律學 (cmn), 诗律学 (cmn) (shīlǜxué) Finnish: metriikka (fi) German: Verslehre (de)

Greek: προσωδία (el) (prosodía) f., μετρική (el) (metrikí) f. Icelandic: bragfræði (is) f. Polish: prozodia (pl) f. Romanian: metrică (ro) f. Slovak: prozódia (sk) f.

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Serbo-Croatian: prozòdija (hr) f. Czech: prosodie (cs) f. Dutch: prosodie (nl) f. Estonian: prosoodia French: prosodie (fr) f.

Icelandic: bragfræði (is) f. Italian: prosodia (it) f. Slovene: prozodija (sl) f.