different between stanza vs distich

English

Etymology

From Italian stanza, from Vulgar Latin *stantia (“standing, stopping-place”), from Latin st?ns, stantis, from st?, st?re, from Proto-Italic *sta??, from Proto-Indo-European *sth?éh?yeti, stative verb from *steh?- (whence English stand). Doublet of stance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?stænz?/
• Rhymes: -ænz?

Noun

stanza (plural stanzas)

1. A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse.
2. (architecture) An apartment or division in a building.
3. (computing) An XML element which acts as basic unit of meaning in XMPP.
   • 2011, P. Saint-Andre, RFC 6120 - Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core

     Definition of XML Stanza: An XML stanza is the basic unit of meaning in XMPP.

   • 2009, Tim Riley, Adam Goucher, Beautiful Testing: Leading Professionals Reveal How They Improve Software

     Whenever an XMPP client generates an XML stanza, it typically constructs the XML of the stanza by building up a structured document […]

   • 2009, John Rittinghouse, James F. Ransome, Cloud Computing: Implementation, Management, and Security

     Technically speaking, federation is the ability for two XMPP servers in different domains to exchange XML stanzas.

4. (broadcasting) A segment; a portion of a broadcast devoted to a particular topic.
5. (sports) A period; an interval into which a sporting event is divided.

Derived terms

Related terms

• stance
• stand

Translations

See also

• strophe

Anagrams

• ansatz

Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *stantia (“standing, stopping-place”), from Latin st?ns, stantis, from st?, st?re.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -antsa

• IPA^(key): /?stan?tsa/

Noun

stanza f (plural stanze)

1. room
2. stanza

Descendants

• ? Old French: estance
  • ? Middle English: staunce
    • English: stance

Middle Norwegian

Etymology

Related to Old Norse standa.

Verb

stanza

1. to stop

Descendants

• Norwegian Nynorsk: stanse

References

• “stanza” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sutsilvan) stànza
• (Puter) staunza

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *stantia (“standing, stopping-place”), from Latin st?ns, stantis, from st?, st?re, from Proto-Indo-European *steh?-.

Noun

stanza f (plural stanzas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) room

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader) chombra
• (Sursilvan) combra
• (Surmiran) tgombra

English

Etymology

From Latin distichon (“a poem of two verses, a distich consisting of a hexameter and a pentameter”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (dístikhon).

Noun

distich (plural distichs or distiches)

1. (prosody) A couplet, a two-line stanza making complete sense.
2. Any couplet.

Translations

See also

• Elegiac couplet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Heroic couplet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Adjective

distich (not comparable)

1. Distichous.

German

Etymology

From Latin distichus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (dístikhos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d?s?t?ç]
• Hyphenation: dis?tich

Adjective

distich (not comparable)

1. (botany) distichous

Declension

Further reading

• “distich” in Duden online