stanzaic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.18 in modern English

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adj

"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."

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.

interstanzaic intrastanzaic nonstanzaic unstanzaic

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What does stanzaic mean?

Of or pertaining to stanzas.

Where does stanzaic come from?

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.

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