choriambic（adj.）
in prosody, "pertaining to or consisting of choriambs," 1650s, from Latin choriambicus, from Greek khōriambikos, from khōriambos. This is compounded from iambos (see iambic) + khoreios, the name of the foot we tend to call a trochee, literally "pertaining to a dance or theatrical chorus," from khoros (see chorus).
In classical prosody a four-syllable foot, the first and last long the middle two short. Common in English poetry 16c.-19c. (“Lilies without, roses within”), but in English it is less a foot than a two-foot pattern of an inverted iamb (a trochee, or choreus) followed by an iamb, typically at the start of an iambic decasyllable line or after a caesura. As a noun, "a foot constituting a choriamb," by 1866.
该词起源时间：1650年代