arsis
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Ancient Greek ἄρσις (ársis, “lifting”), from αἴρω (aírō, “I lift”).
Noun[edit]
arsis (countable and uncountable, plural arses)
- (music) The stronger part of a musical measure: the part containing the beat.
- (poetry) The stronger part of a metrical foot: the part containing the long (heavy) syllable in quantitative meter, or the stressed syllable in a qualitative meter.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Hermann to this entry?)
- (music) The elevation of the hand, or that part of the bar at which it is raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar, opposed to the thesis.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Moore to this entry?)
- The elevation of the voice to a higher pitch in speaking.
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Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Noun[edit]
arsis m (plural arsis)
Further reading[edit]
- “arsis” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin[edit]
Participle[edit]
arsīs
- dative masculine plural of arsus
- dative feminine plural of arsus
- dative neuter plural of arsus
- ablative masculine plural of arsus
- ablative neuter plural of arsus
- ablative feminine plural of arsus
References[edit]
- arsis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- arsis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
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