arsis

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑː(ɹ)sɪs/

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.
   • 1830, Johann Gottfried Jacob Hermann, Hermann's Elements of the Doctrine of Metres:

     it comes to pass that the arsis may effect some change in the order of which it is itself the commencement

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.^[1]
4. The elevation of the voice to a higher pitch in speaking.

• arsic

• Sarsi, saris, siras

arsis m (plural arsis)

1. arsis

• “arsis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

arsīs

1. dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)