ictus

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ic=tus

CIDE DICTIONARY

ictus, n. [L., fr. icere, ictum, to strike.].

•  The stress of voice laid upon accented syllable of a word. Cf. Arsis.  [1913 Webster]
•  A stroke or blow, as in a sunstroke, the sting of an insect, pulsation of an artery, etc.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

ictus, n. (pl. same or ictuses)
1 Prosody rhythmical or metrical stress.
2 Med. a stroke or seizure; a fit.

Etymology

L, = blow f. icere strike

THESAURUS

ictus

Alexandrine, Jacksonian epilepsy, Rolandic epilepsy, abdominal epilepsy, accent, accentuation, access, acquired epilepsy, activated epilepsy, affect epilepsy, akinetic epilepsy, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, anapest, antispast, apoplexy, arrest, arsis, attack, autonomic epilepsy, bacchius, beat, blockage, cadence, caesura, cardiac epilepsy, catalexis, chloriamb, chloriambus, clonic spasm, clonus, colon, convulsion, cortical epilepsy, counterpoint, cramp, cretic, cursive epilepsy, dactyl, dactylic hexameter, diaeresis, dimeter, dipody, diurnal epilepsy, dochmiac, eclampsia, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, emphasis, epilepsia, epilepsia gravior, epilepsia major, epilepsia minor, epilepsia mitior, epilepsia nutans, epilepsia tarda, epilepsy, epitasis, epitrite, falling sickness, feminine caesura, fit, focal epilepsy, foot, frenzy, grammatical accent, grand mal, grip, haute mal, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody, hysterical epilepsy, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, intonation, intonation pattern, ionic, jingle, larval epilepsy, laryngeal epilepsy, laryngospasm, latent epilepsy, level of stress, lilt, lockjaw, masculine caesura, matutinal epilepsy, measure, menstrual epilepsy, meter, metrical accent, metrical foot, metrical group, metrical unit, metrics, metron, molossus, mora, movement, musicogenic epilepsy, myoclonous epilepsy, nocturnal epilepsy, numbers, occlusion, orgasm, paeon, paroxysm, pentameter, pentapody, period, petit mal, physiologic epilepsy, pitch accent, primary stress, proceleusmatic, prosodics, prosody, psychic epilepsy, psychomotor epilepsy, pyrrhic, quantity, reflex epilepsy, rhetorical accent, rhythm, rhythmic pattern, rhythmical accent, rhythmical stress, rotatoria, secondary stress, seizure, sensory epilepsy, serial epilepsy, sexual climax, spasm, spondee, sprung rhythm, stoppage, stress, stress accent, stress arsis, stress pattern, stroke, swing, syzygy, tardy epilepsy, tertiary stress, tetanus, tetany, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, thesis, throes, thromboembolism, thrombosis, tone accent, tonic epilepsy, tonic spasm, torsion spasm, traumatic epilepsy, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trismus, trochee, ucinate epilepsy, visitation, weak stress

ROGET THESAURUS

ictus

Poetry

N poetry, poetics, poesy, Muse, Calliope, tuneful Nine, Parnassus, Helicon, Pierides, Pierian spring, versification, rhyming, making verses, prosody, orthometry, poem, epic, epic poem, epopee, epopoea, ode, epode, idyl, lyric, eclogue, pastoral, bucolic, dithyramb, anacreontic, sonnet, roundelay, rondeau, rondo, madrigal, canzonet, cento, monody, elegy, amoebaeum, ghazal, palinode, dramatic poetry, lyric poetry, opera, posy, anthology, disjecta membra poetae song, ballad, lay, love song, drinking song, war song, sea song, lullaby, music, nursery rhymes, doggerel, Hudibrastic verse, prose run mad, macaronics, macaronic verse, leonine verse, runes, canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrain, strophe, antistrophe, verse, rhyme, assonance, crambo, meter, measure, foot, numbers, strain, rhythm, accentuation, dactyl, spondee, trochee, anapest, hexameter, pentameter, Alexandrine, anacrusis, antispast, blank verse, ictus, elegiacs, elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry, poet, poet laureate, laureate, bard, lyrist, scald, skald, troubadour, trouvere, minstrel, minnesinger, meistersinger, improvisatore, versifier, sonneteer, rhymer, rhymist, rhymester, ballad monger, runer, poetaster, genus irritabile vatum, poetic, poetical, lyric, lyrical, tuneful, epic, dithyrambic, metrical, a catalectin, elegiac, iambic, trochaic, anapestic, amoebaeic, Melibean, skaldic, Ionic, Sapphic, Alcaic, Pindaric, a poem round and perfect as a star, Dichtung und Wahrheit, furor poeticus, his virtues formed the magic of his song, I do but sing because I must, I learnt life from the poets, licentia vatum, mutum est pictura poema, O for a muse of fire!, sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge, the true poem is the poet's mind, Volk der Dichter und Denker, wisdom married to immortal verse.