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- Italian · borrowed fromottava rima
- English todayottava rima
Borrowed from Italian ottava rima (literally “eighth rhyme”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
ottava rima
Today it means: An arrangement of stanzas of eight lines in heroic verse, with three rhymes, the first six lines rhyming alternately and the last two forming a couplet (ab ab ab cc). Full definition →
Italian ottava rima