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Meaning of "catalexis" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CATALEXIS

catalexis  [ˌkætəˈlɛksɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CATALEXIS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Catalexis is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CATALEXIS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Catalectic

A catalectic line is a metrically incomplete line of verse, lacking a syllable at the end or ending with an incomplete foot. One form of catalexis is headlessness, where the unstressed syllable is dropped from the beginning of the line. Making a meter cataletic can drastically change the feeling of the poem, and is often used to achieve a certain effect. Compare this selection from Book III of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Song of Hiawatha" with that from W. H. Auden's "Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love". The first is in trochaic tetrameter, and the second in trochaic tetrameter catalectic. By the shores of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis. Dark behind it rose the forest, Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, Rose the firs with cones upon them; Bright before it beat the water, Beat the clear and sunny water, Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water. --H. W.

Definition of catalexis in the English dictionary

The definition of catalexis in the dictionary is the state of lacking a syllable in the last foot of a line of poetry.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CATALEXIS


anaphylaxis
ˌænəfɪˈlæksɪs
anatexis
ˈænəˌtɛksɪs
apomixis
ˌæpəˈmɪksɪs
axis
ˈæksɪs
cathexis
kəˈθɛksɪs
chemoprophylaxis
ˌkɛməʊˌprəʊfəˈlæksɪs
chemotaxis
ˌkɛməʊˈtæksɪs
deixis
ˈdaɪksɪs
epistaxis
ˌɛpɪˈstæksɪs
lexis
ˈlɛksɪs
orexis
əˈreksɪs
phototaxis
ˌfəʊtəʊˈtæksɪs
praxis
ˈpræksɪs
prophylaxis
ˌprɒfɪˈlæksɪs
pyxis
ˈpɪksɪs
rhexis
ˈrɛksɪs
stereotaxis
ˌstɛrɪəˈtæksɪs
tachyphylaxis
ˌtækɪfɪˈlæksɪs
taxis
ˈtæksɪs
Zeuxis
ˈzjuːksɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CATALEXIS

catalase
catalatic
catalectic
catalepsy
cataleptic
cataleptically
Catalina Island
catallactic
catallactically
catalo
cataloger
catalogic
catalogize
catalogue
cataloguer
cataloguing
cataloguise
cataloguist
Catalonia
catalpa

WORDS THAT END LIKE CATALEXIS

aerotaxis
anaptyxis
heliotaxis
hypercatalexis
major axis
minor axis
neutral axis
optic axis
parataxis
phyllotaxis
polar axis
principal axis
sparaxis
stylostixis
synaxis
syntexis
the Axis
x-axis
y-axis
z-axis

Synonyms and antonyms of catalexis in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «catalexis» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CATALEXIS

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The translations of catalexis from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «catalexis» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

catalexis
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

catalexis
570 millions of speakers

English

catalexis
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

catalexis
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

catalexis
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

каталектики
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

catalexis
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

catalexis
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

catalexis
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cataleks
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

catalexis
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

catalexis
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

catalexis
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Catalexis
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

catalexis
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

catalexis
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कॅटालेक्सिस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

catalexis
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

catalessi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

catalexis
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

каталектікі
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

catalexis
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

catalexis
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

catalexis
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

catalexis
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

catalexis
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of catalexis

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CATALEXIS»

The term «catalexis» is barely ever used and occupies the 194.902 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CATALEXIS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about catalexis

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CATALEXIS»

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The Metres of the Greeks and Romans: A Manual for Schools ...
Trochaic series end with the thesis ; the catalexis (in syl- labam) is, therefore, common with them. The catalexis is more rare in iambic series, because they end with the arsis. The dactyls are altogether without a close, because they close with  ...
Eduard Munk, Charles Beck, Cornelius Conway Felton, 1844
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Historical Linguistics, 1997: Selected Papers from the 13th ...
Chama and Cavinena both confirm the predictions of catalexis theory. Tacana, like Cavinena, does not have cases of final stress in polysyllables. Primary stress is generally on the penult (there are some cases of antepenultimate stress).
Monika S. Schmid, Jennifer R. Austin, Dieter Stein, 1998
3
Asymmetries in the Phonology of Miogliola:
1995: 56-58), or adding one prosodic unit without phonetic content at one edge ( catalexis: Kiparsky 1991; Kager 1995). As an example, I show in (3) final syllable extrametricality and final syllable catalexis. (3) a. Extrametricality b. Catalexis I II ...
Mirco Ghini, 2001
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The Proceedings of the Twelfth West Coast Conference on ...
L" L" LM L H L"" Obviously, catalexis implies a quantitative adjustment which must respect intrinsic weight of 'innate' heavy syllables. Whereas catalexis leads to a beneficial metrical adjustment of foot binarity in LLL sequences (cf. 35a), it has ...
Eve V. Clark, Erin Duncan, Donka Farkas, 1994
5
Language and Music as Cognitive Systems
The account makes crucial use of catalexis in order to bring out the underlying unity of metres which had traditionally been categorized separately. For instance, Deo (2007) compares the metres known as Ialaughavega and Caruhasini (p.
Patrick Rebuschat, 2012
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Electric Meters: Victorian Physiological Poetics
Patmore again uses the analogy of music to describe the work of catalexis, whereby “a good reader . . . by instinct” will feel a pause within a poetic line (PE, 23). A helpful example, and one that T. S. Omond uses in his 1903 study of prosody, ...
Jason R. Rudy, 2009
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Music in Roman Comedy
820–40). catalexis Often the playwrights created units beyond the individual verse through the use of catalexis. Catalexis can provide a sense of closure, so that one or more acatalectic lines followed by a catalectic verse often form a unit. 1 ...
Timothy J. Moore, 2012
8
Phonological Theory and the Dialects of Italy
The catalexis hypothesis would suggest that the same syllabic skeleton is maintained through time, so that phonological change occurred only at the segmental tier. However, even if we assume catalexis for the metrical representation of ...
Lori Repetti, 2000
9
Features and Interfaces in Romance: Essays in Honor of Heles ...
Catalexis and prosodie integrity The rhythmic hypothesis of invariable plurals in Spanish relies crucially on a characterization of catalexis, as it claims that in output pairs of the number paradigm the (lexical) rhythmic type is invariant, in spite of ...
Julia Rogers Herschensohn, Enrique Mallén, Karen T. Zagona, 2001
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Word Prosodic Systems in the Languages of Europe
Kiparsky (1992) suggests an alternative account of word-final strong syllables, based on catalexis. In his framework, the ban on degenerate feet is absolute, only the variable of parametrised catalexis accounts for whether a language has  ...
Harry van der Hulst, 1999

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CATALEXIS»

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Nor does he boil down — between his allusions to Heidegger and references poetic devices like catalexis — Upworthy's grammatical juju into ... «Refinery29, Apr 14»

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