anapest

English

WOTD – 6 August 2015

Alternative forms

• anapaest (UK)
• anapæst (archaic)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin anapaestus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek , from + .

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæ.nə.piːst/, /ˈæ.nə.pɛst/
• Hyphenation: an‧a‧pest

Noun

anapest (plural anapests)

1. (prosody) In qualitative metre, a metrical foot consisting of three syllables, two unstressed and one stressed (e.g., the word "interrupt").
2. (prosody) In quantitative metre, a metrical foot consisting of three syllables, two short and one long (e.g., the word "velveteen").
3. (prosody) A fragment, phrase or line of poetry or verse using this meter, e.g.

Synonyms

• antidactylus

Derived terms

• anapestic

Translations

metrical foot

• Armenian: անապեստ (hy) (anapest), վերջատանջ (hy) (verǰatanǰ)
• Catalan: anapest m
• Czech: anapest m
• Danish: anapest c
• Dutch: anapest (nl) m
• Faroese: øvutur tríliður m
• Finnish: anapesti (fi)
• French: anapeste (fr) m
• German: Anapäst (de) m
• Greek: ανάπαιστος (el) m (anápaistos)

  Ancient: ἀνάπαιστος m or f (anápaistos)

• Ido: anapesto (io)
• Interlingue:
• Irish: anaipéist f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: anapaestus m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: anapest m

  Nynorsk: anapest m

• Portuguese: anapesto (pt) m
• Russian: ана́пест (ru) m (anápest)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ана̀пест m

  Roman: anàpest (sh) m

• Spanish: anapesto m
• Swedish: anapest (sv) c

verse using this meter

• Dutch: anapest (nl) m
• German: Anapäst (de) m
• Irish: anaipéist f
• Portuguese: anapesto (pt) m
• Russian: ана́пест (ru) m (anápest)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ана̀пест m

  Roman: anàpest (sh) m

Further reading

• anapest on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Patanes, Pestana, patenas, peasant

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.nəˈpest]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.naˈpest]
• Hyphenation: a‧na‧pest

Noun

anapest m (plural anapests or anapestos)

1. anapest (metrical foot).

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈanapɛst/
• Rhymes: -ɛst
• Hyphenation: ana‧pest

Noun

1. (poetry) anapest, a metrical foot consisting of three syllables, two short or unstressed and one long or stressed.
   • 1997, Jiří Fukač with Jiří Vysloužil and Petr Macek, Slovník české hudební kultury‎^[1], Praha: Editio Supraphon, →ISBN, page 742:

     K nejfrekventovanějším stopám patří trochej (¯ ˘), jamb (˘ ¯), daktyl (¯ ˘ ˘), anapest (˘ ˘ ¯), amfibrach (˘ ¯ ˘) a spondej (¯ ¯).

     Trochee (¯ ˘), iamb (˘ ¯), dactyl (¯ ˘ ˘), anapest (˘ ˘ ¯), amphibrach (˘ ¯ ˘) and spondee (¯ ¯) belong among the most frequented feet.

   • (Can we date this quote?), (Please provide the book title or journal name), Praha: Editio Supraphon, →ISBN:
   • 2007, James Dickey, “Básník jde do sebe”, in Revolver revue‎^[2], volumes 67–68, page 125:

     Jakmile jsem si vytvořil tento vztah ke zvuku, jazyku a námětu, okamžitě jsem viděl – lépe řečeno, okamžitě jsem slyšel –, že anapest nemusí pokaždé skončit jako monotónní, ucouraná, vlezlá odrhovačka na způsob básní Edgara Allana Poea, Roberta Service, Kiplinga a dalších.

     I saw at once—or rather I heard at once—when I began to have this kind of relationship to sound, language and subject, that the anapest needn't result in the monotonous, slugging, obtrusive singsong that it has in the poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Service, Kipling, and others.

Derived terms

• anapestický

Further reading

• Template:R:PSJC
• Template:R:SSJC

Anagrams

• Štěpána

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Dutch

Alternative forms

• anapaest (dated)
• anapaestus (dated)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin anapaestus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌaː.naːˈpɛst/
• Hyphenation: ana‧pest
• Rhymes: -ɛst

Noun

anapest m (plural anapesten)

1. anapest

Derived terms

• anapestisch

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

anapest m (Cyrillic spelling анапест)

1. anapest