caesura

== English == === Alternative forms === cesura cæsura (archaic) === Etymology === Latin caesūra (“cutting, hewing”), from caesus, perfect passive participle of caedō (“to cut down, hew”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sɪˈzjʊəɹə/ (US) IPA(key): /səˈʒʊɹə/ Rhymes: -ʊəɹə === Noun === caesura (plural caesuras or caesurae) (rhetoric) A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art. (Classical prosody) Using two words to divide a metrical foot. (typography) The caesura mark ‖ or ||. Synonym: (in its obsolete form) virgule (rare) A break of an era or other measure of history and time; where one era ends and another begins; turning point. ==== Usage notes ==== In poetry bearing caesuras, it is marked by a double vertical line ⟨‖⟩. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === enjambment hemistich == Latin == === Etymology === From caedō + -tūra. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kae̯ˈsuː.ra] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [t͡ʃeˈs̬uː.ra] === Noun === caesūra f (genitive caesūrae); first declension a cutting, felling, hewing down Synonyms: caesus, sectiō (prosody) a pause in a verse, caesura Synonym: incīsiō ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “caesura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "caesura", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “caesura”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.