prosody
noun/ˈprɒsədi/
/ˈprɑːsədi/
[uncountable]- (specialist) the patterns of sounds and rhythms in poetry; the study of thisTopics Literature and writingc2
- (phonetics) the part of phonetics that deals with stress and intonation as opposed to individual speech soundsTopics Languagec2
Word Originlate 15th cent.: from Latin prosodia ‘accent of a syllable’, from Greek prosōidia ‘song sung to music, tone of a syllable’, from pros ‘towards’ + ōidē ‘song’.
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