CAESURA

noun (plural -suras or ~e) Etymology: Late Latin, from Latin, act of cutting, from caedere to cut Date: 1556 a usually rhetorical break in the flow of sound in the middle of a line of verse, a break in the flow of sound in a verse caused by the ending of a word within a foot, break , interruption, a pause marking a rhythmic point of division in a melody, ~l adjective