Pronounced: ad-VEN-shuhs, adj
Notes: I (incorrectly) see “adventure” when I look at this word
Yesterday’s word
The word caesura is “a pause or break in a melody or line of verse”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1500s
Background / Comments
Our word claims to be a break in a melody, but most of the amplification comments discuss the slight pauses we naturally do when speaking verse. I somewhat familiar with music arranged for choirs, but have not run across our word, even though some arrangements have deliberate pauses, which would seem to fit the definition above. Our word comes from the Latin word caesus (cut), which is the past participle of caedere (cut).
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