The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
SPONDEE
spondee
(noun) a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
spondee (plural spondees)
(poetry) A word or metrical foot of two syllables, either both long or both stressed.
Anagrams
• Pedones, depones
Source: Wiktionary
Spon"dee, n. Etym: [L. spondeus, Gr. spondée. So called because at libations slow, solemn melodies were used, chiefly in this meter.] (pros.)
Definition: A poetic foot of two long syllables, as in the Latin word leges.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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