caesuraとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• cesura, cæsura

語源

Latin caesūra (“cutting, hewing”), from caesus, perfect passive participle of caedō (“I cut down, hew”).

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /sɪˈzjʊəɹə/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /sɪˈʒʊɹə/
• 韻: -ʊəɹə

名詞

caesura (複数形 caesuras または caesurae)

2. A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art.
   • 1847, Thomas De Quincey, Milton Versus Southey and Landor:

     The caesura is meant to fall not with the comma after difficult, but after thou; and there is a most effective and grand suspension intended. It is Satan who speaks— Satan in the wilderness; and he marks, as he wishes to mark, the tremendous opposition of attitude between the two parties to the temptation.

   • 1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table:

     Now, then, for my prologue. I am not going to change my cæsuras and cadences for anybody; so if you do not like the heroic, or iambic trimeter brachy-catalectic, you had better not wait to hear it […]

   • 1920, Arthur Quiller-Couch, On The Art of Reading‎^[1]:

     We feel of this, as we feel of a great passage in “Hamlet” or “Lear,” that here is verse at once capable of the highest sublimity and capable of sustaining its theme, of lifting and lowering it at will, with endless resource in the slide and pause of the caesura, to carry it on and on.

   • 1922, John Howard, transl., chapter 4, in Against the Grain, New York: Lieber & Lewis, translation of À rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans, pages 54–55:

     He disliked the texture of those stiff verses, in their official garb, their abject reverence for grammar, their mechanical division by imperturbable cæsuras, always plugged at the end in the same way by the impact of a dactyl against a spondee.

3. (Classical prosody) Using two words to divide a metrical foot.
4. (typography) The caesura mark ‖ or ||.

   Synonym: (in its obsolete form) virgule

5. (rare) A break of an era or other measure of history and time; where one era ends and another begins; turning point.
   • c. 1870, Robert Louis Stevenson, Nuits Blanches:

     Like the knocking at the door in Macbeth, or the cry of the watchman in the Tour de Nesle, they show that the horrible cæsura is over and the nightmares have fled away, because the day is breaking and the ordinary life of men is beginning to bestir itself among the streets.

使用する際の注意点

In poetry bearing caesuras, it is marked by a double vertical line ⟨‖⟩.

参考

• enjambment
• hemistich

Latin

語源

From caedō +‎ -tūra.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kae̯ˈsuː.ra/, [käe̯ˈs̠uːrä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃeˈsu.ra/, [t͡ʃeˈs̬uːrä]

名詞

caesūra f (genitive caesūrae); first declension

1. a cutting, felling, hewing down
2. a pause in a verse, caesura

語形変化

First-declension noun.

同意語

• (caesura): incīsiō
• (cutting): caesus, sectiō

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