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Yes. The word arsis is a Scrabble US word. The word arsis is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

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5-letter words (3 found)

ARSIS,SAIRS,SARIS,

4-letter words (10 found)

AIRS,ARIS,RAIS,RIAS,SAIR,SAIS,SARI,SARS,SIRS,SRIS,

3-letter words (12 found)

AIR,AIS,ARS,ASS,RAI,RAS,RIA,SAI,SAR,SIR,SIS,SRI,

2-letter words (5 found)

AI,AR,AS,IS,SI,

You can make 30 words from arsis according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of arsis

arsis rasis asris saris rsais srais ariss raiss airss iarss riass irass asirs sairs aisrs iasrs siars isars rsias srias risas irsas siras isras arssi rassi asrsi sarsi rsasi srasi arssi rassi asrsi sarsi rsasi srasi assri sasri assri sasri ssari ssari rssai srsai rssai srsai ssrai ssrai ariss raiss airss iarss riass irass arsis rasis asris saris rsais srais aisrs iasrs asirs sairs isars siars risas irsas rsias srias isras siras asisr saisr aissr iassr siasr isasr assir sasir assir sasir ssair ssair aissr iassr asisr saisr isasr siasr sisar issar ssiar ssiar issar sisar rsisa srisa rissa irssa sirsa isrsa rssia srsia rssia srsia ssria ssria rissa irssa rsisa srisa isrsa sirsa sisra issra ssira ssira issra sisra

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Definitions and meaning of arsis

arsis

Etymology

Ancient Greek ἄρσις (ársis, “lifting”), from αἴρω (aírō, “I lift”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑː(ɹ)sɪs/

Noun

arsis (countable and uncountable, plural arses)

  1. (music) The stronger part of a musical measure: the part containing the beat.
  2. (poetry) 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.
  3. (music) 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.
  4. The elevation of the voice to a higher pitch in speaking.

Derived terms

  • arsic

Translations

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Anagrams

  • Sarsi, saris, siras

French

Noun

arsis m (plural arsis)

  1. arsis

Further reading

  • “arsis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Participle

arsīs

  1. dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter plural of arsus

References

  • “arsis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • arsis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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