Arsis
nounEtymology From Latin Arsis, from Ancient Greek ἄρσις (ársis, “elevation”).
1
Raising of the voice in prosody, accented part of a metrical foot
arsis
nounalso spelled Arsis/ˈɑː(ɹ)sɪs/
Etymology From Ancient Greek ἄρσις (ársis, “lifting”), from αἴρω (aírō, “to lift”).
1
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music The stronger part of a musical measure: the part containing the beat.
2
Communications, Journalism, Literature, Media, Poetry, Publishing, Writing 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.
- it comes to pass that the arsis may effect some change in the order of which it is itself the commencement1830, Johann Gottfried Jacob Hermann, Hermann's Elements of the Doctrine of Metres:
3
Entertainment, Lifestyle, 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.
4
The elevation of the voice to a higher pitch in speaking.
- Derived terms
- arsic