caesura.
A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art.
Meaning & usage
A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art.
Using two words to divide a metrical foot.
The caesura mark ‖ or ||.
A break of an era or other measure of history and time; where one era ends and another begins; turning point.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *kh₂éydeti 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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