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Added 10 October 2026

stanza

/ˈstænzə/ noun

Latin root: stāns Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about stanza at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse.
An apartment or division in a building.
An XML element which acts as basic unit of meaning in XMPP.

Origin

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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