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单词 anacrusis
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anacrusisn.

Brit. /ˌanəˈkruːsɪs/, U.S. /ˌænəˈkrusəs/
Inflections: Plural anacruses.
Forms: 1700s– anacrusis, 1800s– anacrousis.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin anacrusis.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin anacrusis beginning of a tune (1549 or earlier), syllable at the beginning of a verse (1796) < ancient Greek ἀνάκρουσις action of pushing back, in Hellenistic Greek also beginning of a tune < ἀνακρούειν to push back, in Hellenistic Greek also (in music) to strike up ( < ἀνα- ana- prefix + κρούειν to strike: see note) + -σις -sis suffix.Compare French anacrouse, anacruse (first half of the 19th cent. or earlier; 1777 or earlier as †anacrousis). Ancient Greek κρούειν to strike is < the same Indo-European base as Lithuanian †kraušyti, Latvian †krauset, both in the sense ‘to strike, break’, and (with added prefix) Old Church Slavonic ukruxŭ crumb, fragment.
1. Music. An unstressed note or group of notes at the beginning of a phrase.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun] > beat > unaccented beat
thesisa1398
anacrusis1763
arsis1775
upbeat1869
afterbeat1901
offbeat1901
1763 St. James's Mag. Sept. 42 There are five parts to it [sc. a certain melody], the Anacrusis, the Ampeira, Cataceleusmus, Iambi, and Dactyli together, and the Syringes.
1973 Word 1970 26 62 In the first movement of Beethoven's ‘Eroica’ Symphony, measure 280, an anacrusis had led up to a rest.
2015 Jrnl. Musicol. 32 163 Radix venie has a two-note melisma, and the final note of the perfection becomes an anacrusis, setting the first syllable of a new line of text.
2. Prosody. An unstressed syllable or group of syllables at the beginning of a verse. Also as a mass noun: the occurrence of such a syllable or syllables at the beginning of a verse.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [noun] > introductory short syllable(s)
anacrusis1811
upbeat1883
1811 Brit. Rev. June 457 Such a verse would in fact be nothing more than a cretic with an anacrusis.
1942 J. C. Pope Rhythm of Beowulf 49 Anacrusis derives its effect..from being placed in the up-beat or arsis.
1998 H. Damico Medieval Scholarship II. 192 The first half-line, with its frequent double alliteration and occasional addition of one or two prefatory syllables of anacrusis.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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