Definitions for caesuras

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caesuras cae·su·ra

Spelling: [si-zhoo r-uh, -zoo r

IPA: /sɪˈʒʊər ə, -ˈzʊər ə, sɪzˈyʊər ə/

Caesuras is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 246 anagrams from letters in caesuras (aacerssu).

Definitions for caesuras

noun

1. Prosody. a break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line, as in know then thyself ‖ presume not God to scan.
2. Classical Prosody. a division made by the ending of a word within a foot, or sometimes at the end of a foot, especially in certain recognized places near the middle of a verse.
3. any break, pause, or interruption.

Origin of caesuras

1550-60; Latin, equivalent to caes(us) cut (past participle of caedere) (caed- cut + -tus past participle suffix) + -ūra -ure

Examples for caesuras

This is a detail from "caesura" by Emily Henretta, on view now at Room East in New York.

For this reason it also occurs more frequently than the other kinds of caesura in the Modern English four-beat line.

The caesura is an important, though not essential, element in Spanish verse.

This caesura, like the end of the line, may be either masculine or feminine.

I had no idea of caesura, my gestures destroyed its harmony, etc., etc.

Further, the caesura, where it occurs at all, may be masculine as well as feminine.

Longer parts of a sentence may be separated both by the caesura and the pause at the end of the line.

Unaccented extra syllables are found also before a caesura or at the end of the line.

The "Nibelungen" strophe consists of four long lines separated by a caesura into two distinct halves.

These different kinds of caesura strictly correspond to their French models.