Definitions For Arsis

Noun

ARSIS (plural arses) (music) The stronger part of a musical measure: the part containing the beat. (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. : (Hermann) (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. : (Moore) The elevation of the voice to a higher pitch in speaking.

Translations

French: arsis, m Portuguese: arse, f, ársis, f

Etymology

"lifting", from αἴρω, , I lift.

Anagrams

Sarsi, saris, siras