See anacrusis on Wiktionary
Download JSON data for anacrusis meaning in All languages combined (8.5kB)
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "nonanadromous"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Latin",
"name": "uder"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc",
"3": "ἀνάκρουσις",
"4": "",
"5": "pushing up"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek ἀνάκρουσις (anákrousis, “pushing up”)",
"name": "uder"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "ἀνακρούω",
"3": "",
"4": "I push up"
},
"expansion": "ἀνακρούω (anakroúō, “I push up”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "ἀνά",
"3": "",
"4": "up"
},
"expansion": "ἀνά (aná, “up”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "κρούω",
"3": "",
"4": "I strike"
},
"expansion": "κρούω (kroúō, “I strike”)",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Modern Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀνάκρουσις (anákrousis, “pushing up”), from ἀνακρούω (anakroúō, “I push up”), from ἀνά (aná, “up”) + κρούω (kroúō, “I strike”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "anacruses",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "anacruses"
},
"expansion": "anacrusis (plural anacruses)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "crusis"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Prosody",
"orig": "en:Prosody",
"parents": [
"Linguistics",
"Language",
"Social sciences",
"Communication",
"Sciences",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "56 44",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "74 26",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English undefined derivations",
"parents": [
"Undefined derivations",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An unstressed syllable at the start of a verse."
],
"id": "en-anacrusis-en-noun-RDYxLquT",
"links": [
[
"prosody",
"prosody"
],
[
"syllable",
"syllable"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(prosody) An unstressed syllable at the start of a verse."
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"phonology",
"prosody",
"sciences"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "86 14",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "(prosody) an unstressed syllable at the start of a verse",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anacrusi"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(prosody) an unstressed syllable at the start of a verse",
"word": "esitahti"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(prosody) an unstressed syllable at the start of a verse",
"word": "anakruusi"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(prosody) an unstressed syllable at the start of a verse",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Auftakt"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "(prosody) an unstressed syllable at the start of a verse",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anacrusi"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "(prosody) an unstressed syllable at the start of a verse",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anakruza"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "(prosody) an unstressed syllable at the start of a verse",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "przedtakt"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "(prosody) an unstressed syllable at the start of a verse",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anacruse"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "anakrúza",
"sense": "(prosody) an unstressed syllable at the start of a verse",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "анакру́за"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Music",
"orig": "en:Music",
"parents": [
"Art",
"Sound",
"Culture",
"Energy",
"Society",
"Nature",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1989, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron",
"text": "Then Etheridge poised his baton, jerked an upbeat, and made the violinists speak the low G and A of their anacrusis.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An unstressed note or notes before the first strong beat (or downbeat) of a phrase."
],
"id": "en-anacrusis-en-noun-s8CZ6HIc",
"links": [
[
"music",
"music"
],
[
"note",
"note"
],
[
"beat",
"beat"
],
[
"downbeat",
"downbeat"
],
[
"phrase",
"phrase"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(music) An unstressed note or notes before the first strong beat (or downbeat) of a phrase."
],
"topics": [
"entertainment",
"lifestyle",
"music"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "14 86",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anacrusi"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 86",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "ruòqǐ",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"word": "弱起"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 86",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"word": "opmaat"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 86",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"word": "nousutahti"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 86",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anacrouse"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 86",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Auftakt"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 86",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Anakrusis"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 86",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anacrusi"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 86",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anakruza"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 86",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "przedtakt"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 86",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anacruse"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 86",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zatákt",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "зата́кт"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 86",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "у̏зма̄х"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 86",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "ȕzmāh"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 86",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anacrusa"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 86",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "upptakt"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/anəˈkɹuːsɪs/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-anacrusis.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a6/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-anacrusis.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-anacrusis.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a6/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-anacrusis.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-anacrusis.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"anacrusis"
],
"word": "anacrusis"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "noun form"
},
"expansion": "anacrusis",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Catalan entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "anacrusi"
}
],
"glosses": [
"plural of anacrusi"
],
"id": "en-anacrusis-ca-noun-UhXwGCHI",
"links": [
[
"anacrusi",
"anacrusi#Catalan"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"plural"
]
}
],
"word": "anacrusis"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "noun form"
},
"expansion": "anacrusis",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Catalan entries with incorrect language header",
"Catalan non-lemma forms",
"Catalan noun forms"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "anacrusi"
}
],
"glosses": [
"plural of anacrusi"
],
"links": [
[
"anacrusi",
"anacrusi#Catalan"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"plural"
]
}
],
"word": "anacrusis"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 4-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English nouns with irregular plurals",
"English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English undefined derivations",
"Requests for review of Japanese translations"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "nonanadromous"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Latin",
"name": "uder"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc",
"3": "ἀνάκρουσις",
"4": "",
"5": "pushing up"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek ἀνάκρουσις (anákrousis, “pushing up”)",
"name": "uder"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "ἀνακρούω",
"3": "",
"4": "I push up"
},
"expansion": "ἀνακρούω (anakroúō, “I push up”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "ἀνά",
"3": "",
"4": "up"
},
"expansion": "ἀνά (aná, “up”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "κρούω",
"3": "",
"4": "I strike"
},
"expansion": "κρούω (kroúō, “I strike”)",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Modern Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀνάκρουσις (anákrousis, “pushing up”), from ἀνακρούω (anakroúō, “I push up”), from ἀνά (aná, “up”) + κρούω (kroúō, “I strike”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "anacruses",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "anacruses"
},
"expansion": "anacrusis (plural anacruses)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "crusis"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"en:Prosody"
],
"glosses": [
"An unstressed syllable at the start of a verse."
],
"links": [
[
"prosody",
"prosody"
],
[
"syllable",
"syllable"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(prosody) An unstressed syllable at the start of a verse."
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"phonology",
"prosody",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Music"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1989, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron",
"text": "Then Etheridge poised his baton, jerked an upbeat, and made the violinists speak the low G and A of their anacrusis.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An unstressed note or notes before the first strong beat (or downbeat) of a phrase."
],
"links": [
[
"music",
"music"
],
[
"note",
"note"
],
[
"beat",
"beat"
],
[
"downbeat",
"downbeat"
],
[
"phrase",
"phrase"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(music) An unstressed note or notes before the first strong beat (or downbeat) of a phrase."
],
"topics": [
"entertainment",
"lifestyle",
"music"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/anəˈkɹuːsɪs/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-anacrusis.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a6/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-anacrusis.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-anacrusis.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a6/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-anacrusis.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-anacrusis.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "(prosody) an unstressed syllable at the start of a verse",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anacrusi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(prosody) an unstressed syllable at the start of a verse",
"word": "esitahti"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(prosody) an unstressed syllable at the start of a verse",
"word": "anakruusi"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(prosody) an unstressed syllable at the start of a verse",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Auftakt"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "(prosody) an unstressed syllable at the start of a verse",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anacrusi"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "(prosody) an unstressed syllable at the start of a verse",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anakruza"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "(prosody) an unstressed syllable at the start of a verse",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "przedtakt"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "(prosody) an unstressed syllable at the start of a verse",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anacruse"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "anakrúza",
"sense": "(prosody) an unstressed syllable at the start of a verse",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "анакру́за"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anacrusi"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "ruòqǐ",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"word": "弱起"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"word": "opmaat"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"word": "nousutahti"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anacrouse"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Auftakt"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Anakrusis"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anacrusi"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anakruza"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "przedtakt"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anacruse"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zatákt",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "зата́кт"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "у̏зма̄х"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "ȕzmāh"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anacrusa"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "upptakt"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"anacrusis"
],
"word": "anacrusis"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.