arsis
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The stronger part of a musical measure: the part containing the beat.
The stronger part of a metrical foot: the part containing the long (heavy) syllable in quantitative meter, or the stressed syllable in a qualitative meter.
{{quote-text|en|year=1830|author=Johann Gottfried Jacob Hermann|title=Hermann's Elements of the Doctrine of Metres
The elevation of the hand, or that part of the bar at which it is raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar, opposed to the thesis.1852, John Weeks Moore, ''Complete Encyclopædia of Music''
(inflection of)