单词 | pes |
释义 | pesn. 1. Early Music. One of the lower parts in a polyphonic score, usually the tenor; frequently with reference to the lowest parts in the manuscript score of the 13th-cent. song ‘Sumer is icumen in’. rare before 20th cent. ΚΠ 1782 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music II. iv. 405 There are two other free parts, which come in periodically with the same notes in a kind of drone or burden, to each of which the author gives the name of Pes. 1899 E. E. Kellett & E. W. Naylor tr. O. Bie Hist. Pianoforte i. 30 This is akin to the practice of the drone in bagpipes, and has analogy with the ancient ‘Pes’, or ‘pedal’ two part vocal accompaniment in ‘Sumer is icumen in’. 1935 T. M. Finney Hist. Music ii. viii. 102 But to the perennial astonishment of everyone who studies the music of the thirteenth century, he added above this pes or ‘foot’ a four-part round. 1974 Early Music 2 263/2 The scribe..appears to have never intended to include a pes text appropriate to the contrafactum. 1983 New Oxf. Compan. Music 1415/2 In most cases the pes carries a melodic ostinato figure. 2. Zoology and Anatomy. The terminal or distal portion of the hindlimb of a vertebrate, homologous with or analogous to the foot. Cf. manus n.1 1c. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > paw or foot > hind foot pes1842 back foot1849 1842 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 3) Pes, the inferior extremity of the abdominal member. 1875 T. H. Huxley & H. N. Martin Course Elem. Biol. (1877) 161 Thickenings, or callosities,..occur beneath the joints of the digits, both in the pes and the manus. 1974 Nature 8 Mar. 174/2 The pes was primitively pentadactylous with a nonserial tarsus. 1998 Nature 3 Dec. 430/1 Another unexpected result is the recognition of considerable variation in heteropody (manus:pes foot area ratios vary from 1:5 to 1:2). 3. Prosody. Either of the two quatrains forming the first part of a sonnet. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > stanza > quatrain > first or second quatrain of sonnet pes1880 1880 Macmillan's Mag. No. 253. 46 The sonnet..we find that its volta occurs after the eighth line, that it has two pedes of four lines each, and a cauda of six. 1945 E. K. Chambers Eng. Lit. at Close of Middle Ages i. 32 There are four [York plays] in a stanza-form derived from rime couée by dropping two lines of the second pes. 1977 Italica 54 471 This cheering possibility is spelled out in the second pes. 1989 MLN 104 27 The reversal of the second pes from abc to bac indicates the backward turn. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1782 |
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