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masculine caesura

masculine caesura noun: a caesura following a stressed syllable.

Noun

masculine caesura (plural masculine caesuras or masculine caesurae)

  1. A caesura following a stressed syllable.
    • Where the main caesura is not followed by bucolic caesura, lines with feminine caesura differ from lines with masculine caesura in two respects: […]1978, Denys Page, Rufinus: The Epigrams of Rufinus, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 29

Forms of masculine caesura

pluralmasculine caesuras
pluralmasculine caesurae

Questions about masculine caesura

What does masculine caesura mean?
Masculine caesura means a caesura following a stressed syllable.
What part of speech is masculine caesura?
Masculine caesura is a noun.
What is the plural of masculine caesura?
The plural of masculine caesura is masculine caesuras.

Words near masculine caesura in the dictionary

  1. mascules
  2. masculin
  3. masculinazi
  4. masculinazis
  5. masculine
  6. masculine caesura
  7. masculine ending
  8. masculine endings
  9. masculine of center
  10. masculine rhyme
  11. masculine rhymes

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