Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

caesural

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: caesural
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to a caesura.

Example Sentences

"By the third decade of the eighteenth century, the syllabic line that really threatened to stay was an uncouth thing of thirteen syllables (counting the obligative feminine terminal), with a caesura after the seventh syllable: […] The order of the stresses in the thirteener went in jumps and jolts and varied from line to line. The only rule (followed only by purists) was that the seventh, caesural, syllable must bear a beat."

Etymology

From caesura + -al.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: caesura

Rhymes With

rural neural plural mural epidural intramural ural pleural subdural dural extramural sensorineural

Questions

What does caesural mean?: Of or pertaining to a caesura.
Where does caesural come from?: From caesura + -al.

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