arsis

Etymology

Ancient Greek ἄρσις (ársis, “lifting”), from αἴρω (aírō, “I lift”).

Noun

arsis (plural arses)

1. (music) The stronger part of a musical measure: the part containing the beat.
2. (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.

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3. (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.

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4. The elevation of the voice to a higher pitch in speaking.

Anagrams

• Sarsi, saris, siras

Noun

arsis m (plural arsis)

1. arsis

Further reading

• “arsis” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Participle

ārsīs

1. dative masculine plural of ārsus
2. dative feminine plural of ārsus
3. dative neuter plural of ārsus
4. ablative masculine plural of ārsus
5. ablative neuter plural of ārsus
6. ablative feminine plural of ārsus

References

• 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)