English-Thai Dictionary
arsis
N พยางค์ เสียง หนัก pa-yang-siang-nak
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
ARSIS
Ar "sis, n. Etym: [L. arsis, Gr. lifting of the hand in beating time, and hence the unaccented part of the rhythm. ]
1. (Pros.) (a ) That part of a foot where the ictus is put, or which is distinguished from the rest (known as the thesis ) of the foot by a greater stress of voice. Hermann. (b ) That elevation of voice now called metrical accentuation, or the rhythmic accent.
Note: It is uncertain whether the arsis originally consisted in a higher musical tone, greater volume, or longer duration of sound, or in all combined.
2. (Mus. )
Defn: 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 thesis. Moore.
New American Oxford Dictionary
arsis
ar sis |ˈärsis ˈɑrsəs | ▶noun ( pl. arses |-ˌsēz | ) Prosody the unstressed syllable of a metrical foot. The opposite of thesis ( sense 3 ). To the Greeks, the two terms designated the raising and lowering of the foot in walking, but their meanings became reversed in the Latin tradition, where grammarians identified them with the lowering and raising of the voice. ORIGIN late Middle English: via late Latin from Greek, literally ‘lifting, ’ from airein ‘raise. ’
Oxford Dictionary
arsis
arsis |ˈɑːsɪs | ▶noun ( pl. arses |-siːz | ) Prosody a stressed syllable or part of a metrical foot in Greek or Latin verse. Often contrasted with thesis ( sense 3 ). ORIGIN late Middle English: via late Latin from Greek, literally ‘lifting ’, from airein ‘raise ’.
Duden Dictionary
Arsis
Ar sis Substantiv, feminin , die |A rsis |die Arsis; Genitiv: der Arsis, Plural: die Arsisen griechisch-lateinisch ; »Hebung « (des taktschlagenden Fußes )1 a antike Metrik unbetonter Taktteil; Gegensatz Thesis 1 1 a b Musik aufwärtsgeführter Schlag beim Taktschlagen 2 betonter Taktteil in der neueren Metrik; Gegensatz Thesis 2
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