arsis

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

arsis (countable and uncountable, 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.

• Sarsi, saris, siras

arsis m (plural arsis)

1. arsis

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

arsīs

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

• 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)