stanza

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A group of lines in a poem, like a paragraph in writing.

   The poem is made up of four short stanzas.

From Italian stanza, from Vulgar Latin *stantia (“standing, stopping-place”), from Latin stāns, stantis, from stō, stāre, from Proto-Italic *staēō, from Proto-Indo-European *sth₂éh₁yeti, stative verb from *steh₂- (whence English stand). Doublet of stance.

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