sestina

See also: šestina

English

Etymology

From Italian sestina. Doublet of sextain.

Noun

sestina (plural sestinas)

1. (poetry) A highly structured poem consisting of six six-line stanzas followed by a tercet or envoy, for a total of thirty-nine lines.

   Coordinate terms: pentina, triolet

   • 2002, Annie Finch, Kathrine Varnes, An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art, University of Michigan Press (→ISBN), page 290:

     Although the sestina is of medieval French origin, attributed to Arnaut Daniel in the late twelfth century and used by other Gallic poets and by Italians including Petrarch and Dante (from whom it received its Italian name), […]

2. (music) A chord comprising the first six members of the harmonic series.

Related terms

• sestine
• sextain

Translations

A highly structured poem

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• Catalan: sextina f
• Czech: sestina f
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• Estonian: sekstiin
• Finnish: sestiini
• French: sextine (fr) f
• Friulian: sestine f
• Georgian: სექსტინა (seksṭina)
• German: Sestine f
• Greek: σεστίνα f (sestína)
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• Hungarian: sestina, szesztina
• Italian: sestina (it) f
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• Polish: sestyna f, sekstyna f
• Portuguese: sextina f
• Romanian: sextină (ro) f
• Russian: сексти́на (ru) f (sekstína)
• Slovak: sestína f
• Slovene: sekstina f
• Spanish: sextina f
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Further reading

• sestina on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Eastins, Saintes, Setians, Staines, entasis, nasties, tansies, tisanes

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛstiːna]

Noun

sestina f

1. (poetry) sestina

Further reading

• Template:R:PSJC
• Template:R:SSJC
• Template:R:KNLA

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Italian

Etymology

From sesto (“sixth”).

Noun

sestina f (plural sestine)

1. (poetry) a six-line stanza, sestet, sestina, sextain
2. (music) sextuplet

Descendants

• → English: sestina

Related terms

• sei

Anagrams

• assenti, assentì, intessa, issante, sensati