caesura
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd-der. Proto-Italic *kaidō Latin caedō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin caesūra English caesura Latin caesūra (“cutting, hewing”), from caesus, perfect passive participle of caedō (“to cut down, hew”).
- derived from *kaidō Latin caedō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin caesūra English caesura Latin caesūra✻ — “cutting, hewing”
- derived from *kh₂eyd-der✻
Definitions
A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art.
- Now, then, for my prologue. I am not going to change my cæsuras and cadences for anybody; so if you do not like the heroic, or iambic trimeter brachy-catalectic, you had better not wait to hear it […]
Using two words to divide a metrical foot.
The caesura mark ‖ or ||.
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A break of an era or other measure of history and time
A break of an era or other measure of history and time; where one era ends and another begins; turning point.
- A quiet time. A caesura. Then everything happened almost at once, and none of it was good.
The neighborhood
- neighborenjambment
- neighborhemistich
Derived
caesural, caesuraless, caesuric, feminine caesura, masculine caesura
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for caesura. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA