stanza

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English [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Italian stanza.

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Noun [edit]

stanza (plural stanzas)

  1. A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse.
  2. (architecture) An apartment or division in a building.
  3. (computing) A structural element in XML
    • 2009, Tim Riley, Adam Goucher, Beautiful Testing: Leading Professionals Reveal How They Improve Software
      Whenever an XMPP client generates an XML stanza, it typically constructs the XML of the stanza by building up a structured document...
    • 2009, John Rittinghouse, James F. Ransome, Cloud Computing: Implementation, Management, and Security
      Technically speaking, federation is the ability for two XMPP servers in different domains to exchange XML stanzas.

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a unit of a poem

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Italian [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Vulgar Latin *stantia (“standing, stopping-place”), from Latin stare.

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

stanza f (plural stanze)

  1. room
  2. stanza

Romansch [edit]

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Etymology [edit]

From Vulgar Latin *stantia (“standing, stopping-place”), from Latin stō, stāre, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-.

Noun [edit]

stanza f (plural stanzas)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) room

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