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 Translation for 'caesura' from English to Icelandic
NOUN   a caesura | caesuras / caesurae
kaflaskil {hv.ft} [óeiginl.]caesura
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Translation for 'caesura' from English to Icelandic

caesura
kaflaskil {hv.ft} [óeiginl.]
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Usage Examples English
  • An experimental technology called the caesura is used as the plot device to carry the novel.
  • Another useful term is caesura, for a natural pause within a line.
  • The Avesta has a parallel stanza of 4x11 syllables with a caesura after the fourth syllable.
  • Anglo-Saxon lines are made up of two half-lines (in old-fashioned scholarship, these are called hemistiches) divided by a breath-pause or caesura.
  • As is typical of Old English verse, the metre of the poem is alliterative and consists of four-stress lines, divided between the second and third stresses by a caesura.

  • In most (but not all) iambic senarii there is a word-break or caesura after the 5th element, corresponding to the dieresis after the 8th element in the trochaic septenarius.
  • The species name is derived from Latin "caesura" (meaning a pause or break) and refers to the white mark arising from the forewing anal margin, which forms a narrow, transverse bar in most "Xenomigia" species but which is interrupted along the anal fold to form two small, white spots in "X.
  • Various positions for caesura (in the foot-based analysis) have traditional names: the caesura "in the third foot" is called "penthemimeral," that in the fourth "hephthemimeral," and that in the second "trihemimeral."
  • Old English poetry, like other Old Germanic alliterative verse, is also commonly marked by the caesura or pause.
  • When the 3rd foot is a dactyl, the caesura can come after the second syllable of the 3rd foot; this is known as a weak or feminine caesura. It is more common in Greek than in Latin.

  • "Upajaati" only has yati (caesura) but no praasa (rhythm) where as "Jaati" and "Vruttaas" contain both yati (caesura) and [...] (rhythm).
  • In verse scansion, the modern caesura mark is a double vertical bar ⟨ [...] ⟩ or ⟨ [...] ⟩, a variant of the single-bar " [...] " ("twig") used as a caesura mark in medieval manuscripts.
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