caesura
See also: cæsura
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin caesūra (“cutting, hewing”), from caesus, perfect passive participle of caedō (“I cut down, hew”).
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file)
Noun
caesura (plural caesuras or caesurae)
- A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art.
- (Classical prosody) Using two words to divide a metrical foot.
- (typography) The caesura mark ‖ or ||.
- (rarely) A break of an era or other measure of history and time; where one era ends and another begins.
Usage notes
In poetry bearing caesuras, it is marked by a double vertical line.
Synonyms
Translations
a pause or interruption
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using two words to divide a metrical foot
See also
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kae̯ˈsuː.ra/, [käe̯ˈs̠uːrä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /t͡ʃeˈsu.ra/, [t͡ʃeˈs̬uːrä]
Noun
caesūra f (genitive caesūrae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | caesūra | caesūrae |
Genitive | caesūrae | caesūrārum |
Dative | caesūrae | caesūrīs |
Accusative | caesūram | caesūrās |
Ablative | caesūrā | caesūrīs |
Vocative | caesūra | caesūrae |
Synonyms
Related terms
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Descendants
References
- “caesura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- caesura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- caesura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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