caesura

n. 中止

发音

UK /sɪˈzjʊəɹə/
US /səˈʒʊɹə/

词形变化

caesurae caesuras 复数 caesuras caesurae 复数

别名

cesura cæsura

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art.

  2. 2.

    Using two words to divide a metrical foot.

    语言学
  3. 3.

    The caesura mark ‖ or ||.

    媒体 印刷
  4. 4.

    A break of an era or other measure of history and time; where one era ends and another begins; turning point.

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词汇关系

名词

上位词 7

break pause suspension interruption intermission inflection prosody

相关短语

masculine caesura feminine caesura

词源

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd-der. Proto-Italic *kaidō Latin caedō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin caesūra English caesura Latin caesūra (“cutting, hewing”), from caesus, perfect passive participle of caedō (“to cut down, hew”).

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