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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TETRASTICH

Via Latin from Greek tetrastikhon, from tetra- + stikhos row.
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PRONUNCIATION OF TETRASTICH

tetrastich  [ˈtɛtrəˌstɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TETRASTICH

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tetrastich 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 TETRASTICH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of tetrastich in the English dictionary

The definition of tetrastich in the dictionary is a poem, stanza, or strophe that consists of four lines.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TETRASTICH


broomstick
ˈbruːmˌstɪk
candlestick
ˈkændəlˌstɪk
chapstick
ˈtʃæpˌstɪk
decastich
ˈdɛkəˌstɪk
dipstick
ˈdɪpˌstɪk
drumstick
ˈdrʌmˌstɪk
fiddlestick
ˈfɪdəlˌstɪk
glowstick
ˈɡləʊˌstɪk
heptastich
ˈhɛptəˌstɪk
hexastich
ˈhɛksəˌstɪk
joystick
ˈdʒɔɪˌstɪk
lipstick
ˈlɪpˌstɪk
matchstick
ˈmætʃˌstɪk
monostich
ˈmɒnəˌstɪk
needlestick
ˈniːdəlˌstɪk
nightstick
ˈnaɪtˌstɪk
octastich
ˈɒktəˌstɪk
pentastich
ˈpɛntəˌstɪk
slapstick
ˈslæpˌstɪk
yardstick
ˈjɑːdˌstɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TETRASTICH

tetrarch
tetrarchate
tetrarchic
tetrarchical
tetrarchy
tetrasemic
tetrasporangium
tetraspore
tetrasporic
tetrasporous
tetrastichal
tetrastichic
tetrastichous
tetrastyle
tetrasyllabic
tetrasyllabical
tetrasyllable
tetratheism
tetrathlon
tetratomic

WORDS THAT END LIKE TETRASTICH

dich
Dietrich
distich
fetich
Friedrich
Greenwich
hemistich
lich
mich
Munich
Norwich
ostrich
Reich
rich
sandwich
stich
telestich
tich
tristich
which

Synonyms and antonyms of tetrastich in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tetrastich» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TETRASTICH

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

Translator English - Chinese

tetrastich
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tetrástico
570 millions of speakers

English

tetrastich
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

tetrastich
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

tetrastich
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

tetrastich
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tetrástico
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

চার পঙ্ক্তির কবিতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tétrarchie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tetrastich
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

tetrastich
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

tetrastich
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

tetrastich
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tetrastich
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tetrastich
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

tetrastich
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

तिसरा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dört mısralı şiir
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tetrastich
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tetrastich
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

tetrastich
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tetrastich
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

tetrastich
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gedig van vier reëls
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tetrastich
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tetrastich
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tetrastich

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TETRASTICH»

The term «tetrastich» is normally little used and occupies the 134.885 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TETRASTICH» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «tetrastich» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «tetrastich» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TETRASTICH»

Discover the use of tetrastich in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tetrastich and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Methodist Review
are each stated in a couplet, and together make a tetrastich; further, each theme is expanded in a tetrastich. The statement of this structure is as follows: Introduction, a distich. First theme, a distich. Expansion of theme, a tetrastich. Second ...
‎1892
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The Old & New Testament Student
(1) The fmz'ure of parallelism which Hebrew poetry shares with the Assyrian and wcient Akkadian, is characteristic of our poem in its varied forms of synonym, antithesis and synthesisThe first strophe is composed of a tetrastich and tristich.
William Rainey Harper, 1883
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Miscellaneous Essays: Miscellaneous essays, by H. T. ...
Another tetrastich, which it is requisite to notice, is denominated Rola. Each verse contains twenty-four mdtrds : and this species of metre admits twelve varieties, from twenty- four short syllables to eleven long and two short, bearing distinct ...
Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Edward Byles Cowell, 1873
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Miscellaneous Essays by H. T. Colebrooke, with Life of the ...
Another tetrastich, which it is requisite to notice, is denominated Rola. Each verse contains twenty-four mdtra's: and this species of metre admits twelve varieties, from twentyfour short syllables to eleven long and two short, bearing distinct ...
Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Thomas Edward ¬ Colebrooke, 1873
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Methodist Review
are each stated in a couplet, and together make a tetrastich ; further, each theme is expanded in a tetrastich. The statement of this structure is as follows : Introduction, a distich. First theme, a distich. Expansion of theme, a tetrastich. Second ...
‎1892
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The Jewish Quarterly Review
Strophe I has two verses, the first a tetrastich of which the first three lines are synonymous, and the fourth synthetic (ver. i),and the second a distich of synonymous lines (ver. 2). Strophe II has three verses. The first verse is a tetrastich in which ...
Cyrus Adler, Solomon Schechter, Abraham Aaron Neuman, 1920
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Miscellaneous Essays by H.T. Colebrooke
Another tetrastich, which it is requisite to notice, is denominated Rola. Each verse contains twenty-four mdtra's: and this species of metre admits twelve varieties, from twentyfour short syllables to eleven long and two short, bearing distinct ...
‎1873
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Miscellaneous essays. With life of the author by his son sir ...
Another tetrastich, which it is requisite to notice, is denominated Rola. Each verse contains twenty-four matrix: and this species of metre admits twelve varieties, from twenty- four short syllables to eleven long and two short, bearing distinct ...
Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Edward Byles Cowell, 1873
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Asiatick Researches: Or, Transactions of the Society ...
designation from Saurashtra or Soratt'ha*. The circumstance is remarkable. - 1 i Another tetrastich, which it is requisite to notice, is denominated Rola. Each verse contains 24 matras : and this species of metre admits twelve varieties, from 24 ...
‎1811
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Miscellaneous Essays
Another tetrastich, which it is requisite to notice, is denominated Rola. Each verse contains twenty-four mdtrds: and this species of metre admits twelve varieties, from twenty- four short syllables to eleven long and two short, bearing distinct ...
Henry Thomas Colebrooke, 1873

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TETRASTICH»

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First Chapter
... as everybody knows), and he didn't know what a nicharchean was either (a line something like the phalaecean), or what a tetrastich was (a four-line stanza). «New York Times, Apr 07»

REFERENCE
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