villanelle
Meanings
noun
- A type of poem, consisting of five tercets and one quatrain, with only two rhymes.
Pronunciation
Word forms
Etymology
From the French villanelle, from Italian villanella, from villano (“peasant”), from Latin vīllānus (“farmhand”), from vīlla (“estate”). The origin references the pastoral themes originally associated with this form.
Derived words
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.