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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

stanzaic en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English stanza Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English stanzaic From stanza + -ic.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to stanzas.
    • a couplet in stanzaic form
    • […]and two enormous Scottish poems, the Buik of Alexander, which has been improbably ascribed to Barbour, and Sir Gilbert Hay's Buik of Alexander the Conquerour; one nearly complete Prose Life of Alexander and fragments of four others; a stanzaic translation of the Fuerres de Gadres which survives only in a fragment, the Romance of Cassamus, and three separate translations of the Secreta Secretorum. 2012, William Matthews, The Tragedy of Arthur, University of California Press, page 68:

Deriveds

interstanzaic · unstanzaic · nonstanzaic · intrastanzaic