different between unaccented vs arsis

English

Etymology

un- +? accented

Adjective

unaccented (comparative more unaccented, superlative most unaccented)

1. Of a word, having no diacritical mark; accentless.
2. Of a vowel or syllable, pronounced with no, or little stress.
3. Not pronounced with a distinctive accent.

   The Frenchman spoke clear, unaccented English.

Translations

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek ????? (ársis, “lifting”), from ???? (aír?, “I lift”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???(?)s?s/

Noun

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.
4. The elevation of the voice to a higher pitch in speaking.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Sarsi, saris, siras

French

Noun

arsis m (plural arsis)

1. arsis

Further reading

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

Latin

Participle

ars?s

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

References

• 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)