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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TERCET

From French, from Italian terzetto, diminutive of terzo third, from Latin tertius.
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PRONUNCIATION OF TERCET

tercet  [ˈtɜːsɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TERCET

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tercet is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TERCET MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Tercet

A tercet is composed of three lines of poetry, forming a stanza or a complete poem. English-language haiku is an example of an unrhymed tercet poem. A poetic triplet is a tercet in which all three lines follow the same rhyme, a a a; triplets are rather rare; they are more customarily used sparingly in verse of heroic couplets or other couplet verse, to add extraordinary emphasis. Other types of tercet include an enclosed tercet where the lines rhyme in an a b a pattern and terza rima where the a b a pattern of a verse is continued in the next verse by making the outer lines of the next stanza rhyme with the central line of the preceding stanza, b c b, as in the terza rima or terzina form of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. There has been much investigation of the possible sources of the Dantesque terzina, which Benedetto Croce characterised as "linked, enclosed, disciplined, vehement and yet calm". William Baer observes of the tercets of terza rima, "These interlocking rhymes tend to pull the listener's attention forward in a continuous flow....

Definition of tercet in the English dictionary

The definition of tercet in the dictionary is a group of three lines of verse that rhyme together or are connected by rhyme with adjacent groups of three lines.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TERCET


basset
ˈbæsɪt
corset
ˈkɔːsɪt
cruset
ˈkruːsɪt
deficit
ˈdɛfɪsɪt
Dorset
ˈdɔːsɪt
doucet
ˈduːsɪt
elicit
ɪˈlɪsɪt
explicit
ɪkˈsplɪsɪt
facet
ˈfæsɪt
faucet
ˈfɔːsɪt
Fawcett
ˈfɔːsɪt
illicit
ɪˈlɪsɪt
implicit
ɪmˈplɪsɪt
lancet
ˈlɑːnsɪt
Massachuset
ˌmæsəˈtʃuːsɪt
sit
sɪt
solicit
səˈlɪsɪt
Somerset
ˈsʌməsɪt
transit
ˈtrænsɪt
worset
ˈwɜːsɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TERCET

terbium
terbium metal
terbium oxide
Terbrugghen
terce
Terceira
tercel
tercentenaries
tercentenary
tercentennial
tercio
terebene
terebic acid
terebinth
terebinthine
terebra
terebrant
terebrate
terebration
teredines

WORDS THAT END LIKE TERCET

avocet
Condorcet
dulcet
Exocet
hic jacet
lacet
mixing faucet
non licet
placet
salicet
scilicet
star facet
tacet
videlicet

Synonyms and antonyms of tercet in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tercet» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TERCET

Find out the translation of tercet to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tercet from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tercet» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

tercet
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

terceto
570 millions of speakers

English

tercet
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

टेसिट
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مقطع ثلاثي في ​​الشعر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

терцет
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tercet
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

টার্সিট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tercet
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tercet
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Terzine
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

tercet
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

tercet
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tercet
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tercet
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

டெர்செட்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Tercet
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

üç mısralı kıta
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

terzina
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tercet
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

терцет
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

terțet
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τρίστιχο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

drieregelig vers
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tercet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tercet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tercet

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TERCET»

The term «tercet» is regularly used and occupies the 63.387 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TERCET» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tercet

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TERCET»

Discover the use of tercet in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tercet and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Writing Metrical Poetry: Contemporary Lessons for Mastering ...
A tercet is a poetic stanza consisting of three lines, usually with rhyme. A poem consisting of such stanzas is called a tercet poem. The three-line structure is certainly peculiar, lacking the natural symmetry of the couplet or the quatrain.
William Baer, 2006
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Language in Literature
(sS'ils pouvaient); that of the tercet is comparative (I3ainsi qu'un). The first is postpositive, whereas the second, incomplete, is an interpolated clause. In the 1847 Le Corsaire text, the punctuation of the sonnet corresponds to this division.
Roman Jakobson, Krystyna Pomorska, Stephen Rudy, 1987
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Renewing the Past, Reconfiguring Jewish Culture: From ...
Miqdash me at, p. 6a-7a. 13. iD"p K^p inn Ibid. 6a, tercet 2. 14. Ibid., ibid., tercet 3. 15. The Guide, 1.5. 16. Miqdash me'at, p. 5 tercet 2. 17. Ibid., p. 28b, tercets 1-4. 18. p. 7ob, tercet 4. 19. p. 72a, tercet 3. 20. Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia.
Ross Brann, Adam Sutcliffe, 2004
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A Companion to Marguerite de Navarre
indicates laura's reaching out in the present dream vision, is picked up in the next tercet's first rhyme “torse,” pointing to laura's action in the past (“'n prima”), namely to guide the poet's steps away from the crowd (“pub- lico viaggio”), as well as ...
Gary Ferguson, Mary B. McKinley, 2013
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A Companion to Romantic Poetry
3. The. Temptations. of. Tercets. Charles. Mahoney. Why does it seem to be so difficult to define a tercet? To say that it is a verse unit of three lines is both entirely accurate and entirely inadequate. But that is where most definitions begin , and ...
Charles Mahoney, 2010
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Poetry for All Seasons: Poems, Forms and Styles
A Tercet is a poem made of three verses with a common rhyme scheme abb. The iamb is the dominate foot in these Tercet verses. Hence, this form is known as the Iambic Tetrameter Tercet. The Cry of the Birdies A fluffing, puffing and picking.
Paterika Hengreaves
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Baudelaire's World
... quatrain; 3° the first and second lines of the first tercet; 4° the third line of the first tercet and the second line of the second tercet; 5° the first and third line of the second tercet. If you introduce into that arrangement any modification whatsoever , ...
Rosemary Lloyd, 2002
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The Biblical Dante
paraphrases the Vulgate text in the first line, and then offers two lines of commentary, filling out the meaning of the tercet's first line. In the fourth tercet, he does not divide things up so neatly, broadly combining paraphrase and commentary ...
V. Stanley, III Benfell, 2011
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Little Songs: Women, Silence, and the Nineteenth-century Sonnet
What is interesting here is that the first tercet, efg, reverses itself in the second tercet, which reads as its mirror image: gfe. And this reversal is exactly what happens thematically. The first tercet describes “silent grief,” which “eats like rust into a ...
Amy Christine Billone, 2007
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Critical Companion to Dante: A Literary Reference to His ...
The first tercet concerns Albert I of Austria, titular Holy Roman Emperor (1298– 1308), who, jealous of the growing power of Prague, invaded Bohemia in 1304. ( Dante has already chastised Albert for ignoring his responsibilities in Italy in ...
Jay Ruud, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TERCET»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tercet is used in the context of the following news items.
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Tercet ABC, czyli Teodor Anioła, Edmund Białas i Henryk Czapczyk
Skutecznością tercetu ABC zachwycali się wszyscy. To dla nich tysiące kibiców przychodziło na stadion Lecha na Dębcu. Nie można się temu dziwić, bo w 44 ... «Głos Wielkopolski, Jun 15»
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Izabela Skrybant-Dziewiątkowska: Nie dorobiłam się na Tercecie
Na świecie jest tylko jeden zespół, który istnieje dłużej od Tercetu Egzotycznego – to słynni Rolling Stonesi. Mimo takiej historii jednak liderka Tercetu Izabela ... «fakt.pl, Jun 15»
3
Juventus Turyn - FC Barcelona: genialny tercet skruszy włoski mur?
W sobotni wieczór oczy wszystkich kibiców zwrócone będą na Berlin. Na Stadionie Olimpijskim Juventus zagra z FC Barcelona w finale Ligi Mistrzów. «Onet.pl, Jun 15»
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Tercet Egzotyczny ożywił amfiteatr (galeria)
Blisko czterysta osób bawiło się na koncercie Tercetu Egzotycznego. Znane i lubiane od dziesiątków lat przeboje rozbrzmiały 31 maja w amfiteatrze im. «Wiadomości Wrzesińskie, Jun 15»
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Rajd Portugalii 2015: punkty Kubicy, tercet Volkswagena
Na trasie Rajdu Portugalii 2015 zdecydowanie najlepszy okazał się tercet zespołu fabrycznego Volkswagen. Tym razem jako pierwszy linię mety minął ... «Auto Świat, May 15»
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Tercet Messi - Suarez - Neymar rozbije Bayern? Boateng: Nie …
Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez oraz Neymar zdobyli już w tym sezonie 108 goli i budzą respekt graczy Bayernu Monachium. Jerome Boateng nie traci jednak nadziei ... «SportoweFakty.pl, May 15»
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Tercet Messi-Neymar-Suarez skuteczniejszy od madryckiego BBC …
Tercet Messi-Neymar-Suarez skuteczniejszy od madryckiego BBC. Piłkarze Barcelony strzelili w tym sezonie we wszystkich rozgrywkach 91 goli (45 ... «SportoweFakty.pl, Apr 15»
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Tercet Egzotyczny nagrał teledysk. Prapremiera u nas! [ZOBACZ]
Tercet Egzotyczny nie ma w swojej karierze zbyt wielu wideoklipów do piosenek, które stworzył w ciągu trwającej pół wieku kariery. Tym bardziej nagranie ... «Gazeta Wrocławska, Jan 15»
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Tercet Egzotyczny zagra piękne pastorałki [BILETY]
Tercet Egzotyczny zaprasza na grudniowy, będący już tradycją koncert, podczas którego zbierane są pieniądze dla Kliniki Transplantacji Szpiku, Onkologii i ... «NaszeMiasto.pl, Dec 14»
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Świąteczny koncert Tercetu [ZDJĘCIA]
Świąteczny koncert Tercetu Egzotycznego, który odbył się 27 listopada w Opactwie Benedyktynów w Lubiniu zachwycił zgromadzoną publiczność i był ... «NaszeMiasto.pl, Dec 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Tercet [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/tercet>. May 2024 ».
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