stanza

来自意大利语 stanza,诗节，段，词源同 stand,stance.

stanza

stanza: [16] Etymologically, a stanza is a place where one ‘stands’ or stops. The word was borrowed from Italian stanza, a descendant of Vulgar Latin *stantia ‘standing, stopping-place’, which in turn was derived from the present participle of Latin stāre ‘stand’ (source of English stage, state, station, etc). Its application to a ‘verse of poetry’ arose in Italian from the notion of ‘stopping’ at the end of a section. Stanza was borrowed into French as stance, from which English gets stance [16].
=> stance, stand, state, station

stanza (n.)

"group of rhymed verse lines," 1580s, from Italian stanza "verse of a poem," originally "standing, stopping place," from Vulgar Latin *stantia "a stanza of verse," so called from the stop at the end of it, from Latin stantem (nominative stans), present participle of stare "to stand," from PIE root *sta- "to stand, set down, make or be firm" (see stet). Related: Stanzaic.

1. A stanza is, literally, a room.

stanza（诗节）的原意为“房间”。

2. He's reading the second stanza.

他正在读诗的第二节。

3. The troupe has agreed to be held over for another stanza.

剧团已经同意续演一期.

4. The stanza ended, Marcos resumed his comments.

演出结束后, 马科斯继续评论.

5. We omitted the second stanza.

我们略去了这首诗的第二段.