English Explanatory Dictionary

caesura

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art.
  2. Using two words to divide a metrical foot.
  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.

Pronunciation

/sɪˈzjʊəɹə/ /səˈʒʊɹə/ en-us-caesura.ogg

Word forms

caesura caesuras caesurae cesura cæsura

Etymology

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”).

Synonyms

virgule

Related words

enjambment hemistich

Derived words

caesural caesuraless caesuric feminine caesura masculine caesura

Translations

Albanian: cezurë Catalan: cesura Dutch: cesuur Finnish: tauko French: césure German: Zäsur Hungarian: cezúra Hungarian: sormetszet Japanese: 中間休止 Polish: cezura Polish: średniówka Portuguese: cesura Russian: цезу́ра Serbo-Croatian: цезура Serbo-Croatian: cezura Spanish: cesura Swedish: cesur
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