Get to know Ictus better with 6 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like seizure or raptus.
Ictus meaning
- The pulse.
- A sudden attack, blow, stroke, or seizure, as in a sunstroke, the sting of an insect, pulsation of an artery, etc.
- The stress of voice laid upon an accented syllable of a word. Compare arsis.
Using Ictus
- The main meaning on this page is: The pulse. | A sudden attack, blow, stroke, or seizure, as in a sunstroke, the sting of an insect, pulsation of an artery, etc. | The stress of voice laid upon an accented syllable of a word. Compare arsis.
- Useful related words include: seizure, raptus, attack.
- In the example corpus, ictus often appears in combinations such as: the ictus, metrical ictus, ictus the.
Context around Ictus
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 4 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ictus
- In this selection, "ictus" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, metrical, verse and stress stand out and add context to how "ictus" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include after the ictus of the and called the ictus the basic. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ictus" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ictus
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
There is usually a caesura after the ictus of the third foot. (12 words)
The initial syllable of either foot is called the ictus, the basic "beat" of the verse. (16 words)
There seems to be great debate over whether Plautus found favor in strong word accent or verse ictus, stress. (19 words)
Note how the word endings do not coincide with the end of a metrical foot; for the early part of the line this forces the natural accent of each word to lie in the middle of a foot, playing against the natural rhythm of the ictus. (46 words)
The Homeric poems arrange words in the line so that there is an interplay between the metrical ictus—the first long syllable of each foot—and the natural, spoken accent of words. (32 words)
Similarly, the second syllable of the words urbem main and Romam main carry the metrical ictus even though the first is naturally stressed in typical pronunciation. (26 words)
Example sentences (6)
Note how the word endings do not coincide with the end of a metrical foot; for the early part of the line this forces the natural accent of each word to lie in the middle of a foot, playing against the natural rhythm of the ictus.
Similarly, the second syllable of the words urbem main and Romam main carry the metrical ictus even though the first is naturally stressed in typical pronunciation.
The Homeric poems arrange words in the line so that there is an interplay between the metrical ictus—the first long syllable of each foot—and the natural, spoken accent of words.
The initial syllable of either foot is called the ictus, the basic "beat" of the verse.
There is usually a caesura after the ictus of the third foot.
There seems to be great debate over whether Plautus found favor in strong word accent or verse ictus, stress.
Common combinations with ictus
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: