/ˈɑː(ɹ)sɪs/
OriginFrom Latin Arsis, from Ancient Greek ἄρσις (ársis, “elevation”).
- Raising of the voice in prosody, accented part of a metrical foot
- countable, uncountableThe stronger part of a musical measure: the part containing the beat.
- countable, uncountableThe 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”
- countable, uncountableThe 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.
- countable, uncountableThe elevation of the voice to a higher pitch in speaking.
Formsarses(plural)