caesura

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /sɪˈzjʊəɹə/    美 /səˈʒʊɹə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art. rhetoric
    — The caesura is meant to fall not with the comma after difficult, but after thou; and there is a most effective and grand suspension intended. It is Satan who speaks— Satan in the wilderness; and he marks, as he wishes to mark, the tremendous opposition of attitude between the two parties to the temptation.
  2. Using two words to divide a metrical foot. Classical
  3. The caesura mark ‖ or ||.
  4. A break of an era or other measure of history and time; where one era ends and another begins; turning point. rare
    — Like the knocking at the door in Macbeth, or the cry of the watchman in the Tour de Nesle, they show that the horrible cæsura is over and the nightmares have fled away, because the day is breaking and the ordinary life of men is beginning to bestir itself among the streets.

词形变化

caesuras plural caesurae plural cesura alternative cæsura alternative,archaic

词汇关系

衍生词
caesural caesuraless caesuric feminine caesura masculine caesura
相关词
enjambment hemistich

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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