ottava riman.

Brit.

/ə(ʊ)ˌtɑːvə ˈriːmə/, U.S.

/oʊˌtɑvə ˈrimə/

Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian ottava rima.

Etymology: < Italian ottava rima (1520 or earlier) < ottava , feminine of ottavo eighth (1292; < classical Latin octāvus : see octave n.²) + rima rhyme n.; compare terza rima terza rima n. etc. Compare German (plural) Ottave rime (1767 or earlier). Compare earlier octave n.² (compare sense 2 at that entry), and (in different sense) ottava n.Italian ottava in the sense ‘ottava rima’ is also attested (a1597). Not fully naturalized in English.

Prosody.

A form of poetry consisting of stanzas of eight lines of ten or eleven syllables rhyming abababcc. Cf. octave n.² 2a.The Italian stanza, used by Boccaccio, Ariosto, Tasso, etc., standardly has eleven syllables and had an iambic variant called endecasillabo. In English, the iambic form, most notably in Byron's Don Juan, is more typical.

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ottava rima1776

1776 J. Hawkins Gen. Hist. Music II. ii. i. 131 He [sc. Boccace] it is said was the inventor of the Ottava Rima.

1820 P. B. Shelley Let. 12 July (1964) II. 213 I am translating in ottava rima the ‘Hymn to Mercury’ of Homer.

1875 J. R. Lowell Spenser in Prose Wks. (1890) IV. 328 He found the ottava rima too monotonously iterative.

1919 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 40 120 This is a poem in 144 stanzas in ottava rima.

1990 Poetry Rev. Spring 63/2 Poetic comedy needs strong form, needs a momentum sufficient to get the form bedded in the reader's subconscious, the heroic couplet of the Augustans, the ottava rima of Byron and Auden.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	ottava rima
释义	ottava riman. Brit. /ə(ʊ)ˌtɑːvə ˈriːmə/, U.S. /oʊˌtɑvə ˈrimə/ Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian ottava rima. Etymology: < Italian ottava rima (1520 or earlier) < ottava , feminine of ottavo eighth (1292; < classical Latin octāvus : see octave n.²) + rima rhyme n.; compare terza rima terza rima n. etc. Compare German (plural) Ottave rime (1767 or earlier). Compare earlier octave n.² (compare sense 2 at that entry), and (in different sense) ottava n.Italian ottava in the sense ‘ottava rima’ is also attested (a1597). Not fully naturalized in English. Prosody. A form of poetry consisting of stanzas of eight lines of ten or eleven syllables rhyming abababcc. Cf. octave n.² 2a.The Italian stanza, used by Boccaccio, Ariosto, Tasso, etc., standardly has eleven syllables and had an iambic variant called endecasillabo. In English, the iambic form, most notably in Byron's Don Juan, is more typical. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > stanza > eight-lined stanza > ottava rima octave rhyme1700 ottava rima1776 1776 J. Hawkins Gen. Hist. Music II. ii. i. 131 He [sc. Boccace] it is said was the inventor of the Ottava Rima. 1820 P. B. Shelley Let. 12 July (1964) II. 213 I am translating in ottava rima the ‘Hymn to Mercury’ of Homer. 1875 J. R. Lowell Spenser in Prose Wks. (1890) IV. 328 He found the ottava rima too monotonously iterative. 1919 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 40 120 This is a poem in 144 stanzas in ottava rima. 1990 Poetry Rev. Spring 63/2 Poetic comedy needs strong form, needs a momentum sufficient to get the form bedded in the reader's subconscious, the heroic couplet of the Augustans, the ottava rima of Byron and Auden. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1776
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