Word.ws English Dictionary

sestiad

sestiad noun: one of six parts.

Noun

sestiad (plural sestiads)

  1. One of six parts.
    • In the first impression of 1598, after the line which concludes the second sestiad, as divided by Chapman, “Dang'd downe to hell her loathsome carriage,” are added the words Desunt nonnulla.1837, Francis Egerton, A Catalogue, Biographical and Critical: Of Early English Literature
    • I have insisted on the necessity of linking Marlowe's and Chapman's sestiads by reading Hero and Leander in its entirety, because doing so reveals to us more clearly and completely the work of each writer in the poem […]1974, Judith H. Lightfoot, Hero and Leander and the 1590's, page 156

Forms of sestiad

pluralsestiads

Origin of sestiad

From Ancient Greek Σηστιάς (Sēstiás), from Σηστός (Sēstós, “Sestus”).

Questions about sestiad

What does sestiad mean?
Sestiad means one of six parts.
What part of speech is sestiad?
Sestiad is a noun.
What is the plural of sestiad?
The plural of sestiad is sestiads.

Words near sestiad in the dictionary

  1. sestettes
  2. sestetti
  3. sestetto
  4. sestettos
  5. sestetts
  6. sestiad
  7. sestiads
  8. Sestian
  9. sestina
  10. sestinas
  11. sestine

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sestiad (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “sestiad.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sestiad. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.