stanza

Meaning

Noun

• A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse.
• An apartment or division in a building.
• An XML element which acts as basic unit of meaning in XMPP.
• A segment; a portion of a broadcast devoted to a particular topic.
• A period; an interval into which a sporting event is divided.

Origin

• From Italian stanza, from Vulgar Latin *stantia ("standing, stopping-place"), from Latin stans, from sto, from Proto-Italic *staēō, from Proto-Indo-European *sth₂éh₁yeti, stative verb from *steh₂- (whence English stand). stance.