Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Trochee

Trochee , noun

[Latin trochaeus, Greek {not transcribed} (sc.{not transcribed}), from {not transcribed} running, from {not transcribed} to run. Compare Troche, Truck a wheel.]

(Prosody) A foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short, as in the Latin word ante, or the first accented and the second unaccented, as in the English word motion; a choreus.