distich

The story

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromδίστιχον
2. Latin · borrowed fromdistichon“a poem of two verses, a distich consisting of a hexameter and a pentameter”
3. English todaydistich

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