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distich
[ dis-tik ]
noun
, Prosody.
- a unit of two lines of verse, usually a self-contained statement; couplet.
- a rhyming couplet.
distich
/ ˈdɪstɪk /
noun
- prosody a unit of two verse lines, usually a couplet
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Derived Forms
- ˈdistichal, adjective
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Other Words From
- disti·chal adjective
- sub·distich noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of distich1
C16: from Greek distikhos having two lines, from di- 1+ stikhos stich
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Example Sentences
A war is undertaken for an epigram or a distich, as in Europe for a duchy.
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Leo used occasionally to send him some dishes from his table; and he was expected to pay for each dish with a Latin distich.
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That distich which Shakespeare puts in the mouth of his madman in K. Lear, act iii.
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So ran an agonised distich I found written up on a rock somewhere.
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The chief forms of verse used are the elegiac distich (most frequent), scazons, and hendecasyllabics.
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