stasimon

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[stas-uh-mon] / ˈstæs əˌmɒn /

noun

stasima plural

1. (in ancient Greek drama) a choral ode, especially in tragedy, divided into strophe and antistrophe: usually alternating with the epeisodion and, in the final ode, preceding the exodos.

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Inflected Forms

noun

• stasima
  plural

Etymology

Origin of stasimon

1860–65; < Greek stásimon, neuter of stásimos stopping, stationary, equivalent to stási ( s ) a standing ( see stasis) + -mos adj. suffix

Example Sentences

We now come to the quantitative parts, and the separate parts into which Tragedy is divided, namely, Prologue, Episode, Exode, Choric song; this last being divided into Parode and Stasimon.

From The Poetics of Aristotle by Butcher, S. H. (Samuel Henry)

Of the Choric part the Parode is the first undivided utterance of the Chorus: the Stasimon is a Choric ode without anapaests or trochaic tetrameters: the Commos is a joint lamentation of Chorus and actors.

From The Poetics of Aristotle by Butcher, S. H. (Samuel Henry)

Stasimon, stas′i-mon, n. an ode sung by the whole chorus, after the parode:—pl.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various