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accentual — accentuál adj. m., pl. accentuáli; f. sg. accentuálă, pl. accentuále Trimis de siveco, 10.08.2004. Sursa: Dicţionar ortografic ACCENTUÁL, Ă adj. (lingv.) Referitor la accent; care poartă accentul. [ … Dicționar Român
Accentual — Ac*cen tu*al, a. Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
accentual — [ak sen′cho͞o əl, əksen′cho͞o əl] adj. [< L accentus (see ACCENT) + AL] 1. of or having to do with accent 2. having rhythm based on stress rather than on the number of syllables or length of sounds, as some poetry accentually adv … English World dictionary
accentual — adjective 1. of or pertaining to accent or stress • Pertains to noun: ↑accent • Derivationally related forms: ↑accent 2. (of verse) having a metric system based on stress rather than syllables or quantity accentual poetry is based on the number… … Useful english dictionary
accentual — adjective Etymology: Latin accentus Date: 1610 of, relating to, or characterized by accent; specifically based on accent rather than on quantity or syllabic recurrence < accentual poetry > • accentually adverb … New Collegiate Dictionary
accentual — ac•cen•tu•al [[t]ækˈsɛn tʃu əl[/t]] adj. 1) phn of or pertaining to accent or stress 2) pro pertaining to or based on stress rather than the number or duration of syllables: accentual meter[/ex] • Etymology: 1600–10; < L accentu(s) (see… … From formal English to slang
accentual — accent ► NOUN 1) a way of pronouncing a language, associated with a country, area, or social class. 2) an emphasis given to a syllable, word, or note. 3) a mark on a letter or word indicating how a sound is pronounced or stressed. 4) a particular … English terms dictionary
Accentual verse — has a fixed number of stresses per line or stanza regardless of the number of syllables that are present. It is common in languages that are stress timed such as English as opposed to syllabic verse, which is common in syllable timed languages… … Wikipedia
Accentual-syllabic verse — is an extension of accentual verse which fixes both the number of stresses and syllables within a line or stanza. Accentual syllabic verse is highly regular and therefore easily scannable. Usually, either one metrical foot, or a specific pattern… … Wikipedia
accentual verse — ▪ prosody in prosody, a metrical system based only on the number of stresses or accented syllables in a line of verse. In accentual verse the total number of syllables in a line can vary as long as there are the prescribed number of accents … Universalium
accentual-syllabic verse — ▪ prosody in prosody, the metrical system that is most commonly used in English poetry. It is based on both the number of stresses, or accents, and the number of syllables in each line of verse. A line of iambic pentameter verse, for… … Universalium
