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distich

[ dis-tik ]

noun

, Prosody.
  1. a unit of two lines of verse, usually a self-contained statement; couplet.
  2. a rhyming couplet.


distich

/ ˈdɪstɪk /

noun

  1. prosody a unit of two verse lines, usually a couplet
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈdistichal, adjective
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Other Words From

  • disti·chal adjective
  • sub·distich noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of distich1

1545–55; < Latin distichon, noun use of neuter of Greek dístichos having two lines, equivalent to di- di- 1 + stíchos row
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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.

Leo used occasionally to send him some dishes from his table; and he was expected to pay for each dish with a Latin distich.

That distich which Shakespeare puts in the mouth of his madman in K. Lear, act iii.

So ran an agonised distich I found written up on a rock somewhere.

The chief forms of verse used are the elegiac distich (most frequent), scazons, and hendecasyllabics.

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