arsis
see also: Arsis
Noun
Arsis
Noun
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see also: Arsis
Noun
arsis
- (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.
- (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.
- The elevation of the voice to a higher pitch in speaking.
- French: arsis
- Portuguese: arse, ársis
Arsis
Noun
arsis (plural arses)
- Raising of the voice in prosody, accented part of a metrical foot
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