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prosody

noun
🔊/ˈprɒsədi/
🔊/ˈprɑːsədi/
 [uncountable]
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  1. (specialist) the patterns of sounds and rhythms in poetry; the study of this韵律；韵律学Topics Literature and writingc2
  2. (phonetics语音学) the part of phonetics that deals with stress and intonation as opposed to individual speech sounds重音和语调模式；韵律结构Topics Languagec2
    3. 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’.