Arsis is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.
You can make 57 anagrams from letters in arsis (airss).
1350-1400; Middle English: raising the voice Latin Greek, equivalent to ar- (stem of aírein to raise, lift) + -sis -sis
Of the whole number, nine begin on the full bar, eleven on the arsis.
A strengthened thesis occurs only after the second arsis; this sub-type might therefore be designated A3b.
The chief variations arise from resolution of the first arsis, cning lmhtig El.
They exhibited a more or less regular alternation of arsis and thesis.
The sub-type A3 is type A with alliteration on the second arsis only and is limited almost entirely to the first hemistich.
Examples of resolution of the first arsis are very numerous, cninga wldor El.
At last, Carbo sent a large body of cavalry against Pompey, near the river arsis.
All of these unaccented syllables are reckoned together as one thesis, as against the accented syllable or arsis.
Accented syllables are as a rule placed in the arsis, as are also second parts of compounds.
Examples of the resolution of the second arsis are less numerous, as wldor cninge El.