Etymology

stanza

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Today it means: A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse. Full definition →

Italian stanza ← Vulgar Latin *stantia ← Latin stāns, stantis
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*sth₂éh₁yeti
  2. Proto-Italic · derived from*staēō
  3. Latin · derived fromstāns, stantis
  4. Vulgar Latin · derived from*stantia“standing, stopping-place”
  5. Italian · borrowed fromstanza
  6. English todaystanza

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.

Words from the same roots

Italianstanza all →

stance

Vulgar Latin*stantia all →

stance

Latinstāns, stantis all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.