Prosody

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Prosody
ˈprɒsədi/
noun
noun: prosody; plural noun: prosodies
  1. 1.
    the patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry.
    “the translator is not obliged to reproduce the prosody of the original”
    • the theory or study of prosody.
      “a general theory of prosody”
  2. 2.
    the patterns of stress and intonation in a language.
    “the salience of prosody in child language acquisition”
Origin
late 15th century: 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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