anapest

English

WOTD – 6 August 2015

Alternative forms

• anapaest (UK)
• anapæst (archaic)

Etymology

From Latin anapaestus, from Ancient Greek ἀνάπαιστος (anápaistos, “struck back, reversed [relative to dactyl]”), from ἀνά (aná, “back”) + παίω (paíō, “I strike”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæ.nə.piːst/, /ˈæ.nə.pɛst/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: an‧a‧pest

Noun

Examples (qualitative meter)
English interrupt /ˌɪntəˈɹʌpt/

Examples (quantitative meter)
Latin pariēs (“wall”): pa-ri-ēs

Examples (phrase)
Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot, but the Grinch, who lived just north of Whoville, did NOT! (Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!)

anapest (plural anapests)

1. (prosody) In qualitative meter, a metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two unstressed and the last one stressed.
2. (prosody) In quantitative meter, a metrical foot consisting of three syllables, two short, then one long.
3. (prosody) A fragment, phrase or line of poetry or verse using this meter.

Synonyms

• antidactylus

Derived terms

• anapestic
• anapestical

 

Translations

metrical foot

• Armenian: անապեստ (hy) (anapest), վերջատանջ (hy) (verǰatanǰ)
• Catalan: anapest m
• Czech: anapest m
• Danish: anapest c
• Dutch: anapest (nl) m
• Faroese: øvutur tríliður m
• Finnish: anapesti (fi)
• French: anapeste (fr) m
• German: Anapäst (de) m
• Greek: ανάπαιστος (el) m (anápaistos)

  Ancient: ἀνάπαιστος m or f (anápaistos)

• Ido: anapesto (io)
• Irish: anaipéist f
• Latin: anapaestus m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: anapest m

  Nynorsk: anapest m

• Polish: anapest (pl) m, antydaktyl (pl) m
• Portuguese: anapesto (pt) m
• Russian: ана́пест (ru) m (anápest)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ана̀пест m

  Roman: anàpest (sh) m

• Spanish: anapesto m
• Swedish: anapest (sv) c

verse using this meter

• Dutch: anapest (nl) m
• German: Anapäst (de) m
• Irish: anaipéist f
• Polish: anapest (pl) m
• Portuguese: anapesto (pt) m
• Russian: ана́пест (ru) m (anápest)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ана̀пест m

  Roman: anàpest (sh) m

Further reading

• anapaest on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• patenas, peasant, Pestana, Patanes, taepans, Tapanes

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.nəˈpɛst]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.naˈpest]
• Hyphenation: a‧na‧pest

Noun

anapest m (plural anapests or anapestos)

1. (prosody) anapest (metrical foot)

Further reading

• “anapest” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈanapɛst]
• Rhymes: -ɛst
• Hyphenation: ana‧pest

Noun

anapest m inan

1. (poetry) anapest, a metrical foot consisting of three syllables, two short or unstressed and one long or stressed
   • 1997, Jiří Fukač with Jiří Vysloužil and Petr Macek, Slovník české hudební kultury‎^[2], Praha: Editio Supraphon, →ISBN, page 742:

     K nejfrekventovanějším stopám patří trochej (¯ ˘), jamb (˘ ¯), daktyl (¯ ˘ ˘), anapest (˘ ˘ ¯), amfibrach (˘ ¯ ˘) a spondej (¯ ¯).

     Trochee (¯ ˘), iamb (˘ ¯), dactyl (¯ ˘ ˘), anapest (˘ ˘ ¯), amphibrach (˘ ¯ ˘) and spondee (¯ ¯) belong among the most frequented feet.

   • 2007, James Dickey, “Básník jde do sebe”, in Revolver revue‎^[3], volumes 67–68, page 125:

     Jakmile jsem si vytvořil tento vztah ke zvuku, jazyku a námětu, okamžitě jsem viděl – lépe řečeno, okamžitě jsem slyšel –, že anapest nemusí pokaždé skončit jako monotónní, ucouraná, vlezlá odrhovačka na způsob básní Edgara Allana Poea, Roberta Service, Kiplinga a dalších.

     I saw at once—or rather I heard at once—when I began to have this kind of relationship to sound, language and subject, that the anapest needn't result in the monotonous, slugging, obtrusive singsong that it has in the poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Service, Kipling, and others.

Declension

Declension of anapest (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	anapest	anapesty
genitive	anapestu	anapestů
dative	anapestu	anapestům
accusative	anapest	anapesty
vocative	anapeste	anapesty
locative	anapestu	anapestech
instrumental	anapestem	anapesty

Derived terms

• anapestický

 

Further reading

• “anapest”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “anapest”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Anagrams

• Štěpána

Dutch

Alternative forms

• anapaest (dated)
• anapaestus (dated)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin anapaestus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌaː.naːˈpɛst/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ana‧pest
• Rhymes: -ɛst

Noun

anapest m (plural anapesten)

1. (prosody) anapest

Derived terms

• anapestisch

Further reading

• “anapest” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin anapaestus, from Ancient Greek ἀνάπαιστος (anápaistos). First attested in 1817.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈna.pɛst/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -apɛst
• Syllabification: a‧na‧pest

Noun

anapest m inan

1. (prosody) anapest

   Synonym: antydaktyl

Declension

Declension of anapest

	singular	plural
nominative	anapest	anapesty
genitive	anapestu	anapestów
dative	anapestowi	anapestom
accusative	anapest	anapesty
instrumental	anapestem	anapestami
locative	anapeście	anapestach
vocative	anapeście	anapesty

Derived terms

adjective

• anapestyczny

 

Further reading

• anapest in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “anapest”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 35

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French anapeste, from Latin anapaestus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.naˈpest/

Noun

anapest m (plural anapești)

1. (prosody) anapest

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	anapest	anapestul		anapești	anapeștii
genitive-dative	anapest	anapestului		anapești	anapeștilor
vocative	anapestule			anapeștilor

Derived terms

adjective

• anapestic

 

Further reading

• anapest in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

anapest m (Cyrillic spelling анапест)

1. anapest