cadence
/ˈkeɪdəns/KAY-duhns
/ˈkeɪdəns/KAY-duhns
Meaninga falling
Common meaning: the rhythm or rise and fall of speech or music
- cadencea fallingSkeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), p. 87 · scan
Journey through time
- Aryan root · reconstructed√KAD‘fall, go away’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 45, p. 731 · scan
- Latincadere‘a falling’source
- Late Latincadentia‘a falling’source
- Frenchmeaning shiftsa falling → rhythmic fallcadence‘rhythmic fall’source
- Englishcadence‘the rhythm or rise and fall of speech or music’ · today
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Latin cadere ‘a falling’.
Did you know: our wording, based on Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry CADENCE, p. 87 · dictionary scan
Roots
- cadere Latin “a falling”
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