stanco

Borrowed from German Stanze (“ottava rima”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈstant͡so/
• Rhymes: -ant͡so
• Syllabification: stan‧co

stanco (accusative singular stancon, plural stancoj, accusative plural stancojn)

1. (poetry) ottava rima

   Hypernym: strofo

2. (proscribed) synonym of strofo (“stanza, verse”)

According to BL, this word is only for the ottava rima, the Italianate verse type with the rhyme scheme abababcc; for generic verses, use strofo.^[1]

• WDE (1906), page 211b: “Stanze” → “stanco”

• RV (1997), “stanco”

• IPA^(key): /ˈstan.ko/

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• Rhymes: -anko
• Hyphenation: stàn‧co

From the short past participle of stancare (“to tire out”) in Tuscan; compare the Standard Italian participle stancato.^[1]

stanco (feminine stanca, masculine plural stanchi, feminine plural stanche, superlative stanchissimo)

1. tired

   Sono stanco morto. ― I'm dead tired.

2. bored

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

stanco

1. first-person singular present indicative of stancare

• stancamente
• stanchezza

• Ledgeway, Adam. 2016. Italian, Tuscan, and Corsican. In Ledgeway, Adam & Maiden, Martin (eds.), The Oxford guide to the Romance languages, 206–227. Oxford: OUP.

• consta, sconta