Join free

arsis

English · Français

AI In plain words

Writing a short explanation…

Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.

Arsis¹

Where it comes from

From Latin Arsis, from Ancient Greek ἄρσις (ársis, “elevation”).

noun arses

  1. Raising of the voice in prosody, accented part of a metrical foot

arsis²

  • /ˈɑː(ɹ)sɪs/

Where it comes from

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

noun arses

  1. countable, uncountable The stronger part of a musical measure: the part containing the beat.
  2. countable, uncountable 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. it comes to pass that the arsis may effect some change in the order of which it is itself the commencement
  3. countable, uncountable 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. countable, uncountable The elevation of the voice to a higher pitch in speaking.

Translations

Every language

noun the stronger part of a measure or foot

Portuguêsarse, ársis
Françaisarsis
Italianoarsi

Talk about this word

Cite this
MLA

"arsis." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/arsis. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

arsis. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/arsis

Chicago

"arsis." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/arsis.

BibTeX
@misc{arsis_2026,
  title = {arsis},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/arsis},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}