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stasimon

stasimon noun: a song of the chorus during a tragedy, continued without the interruption of dialogue or anapaestics.

Noun

stasimon (plural stasima)

  1. (Ancient-Greek) A song of the chorus during a tragedy, continued without the interruption of dialogue or anapaestics.
    • the lively measures of the Hyporcheme which holds the place of THIRD STASIMON ( V ) speak for themselves1883, Richard Claverhouse Jebb, Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments
    • In the Parados the chorus is 'coming on', and has to move on to and across the orchestra to take its place in the middle; in all the stasima, however active and lively the dance, its evolutions are performed from that middle position (a choro tenente stationes suas, as Hermann said in 1844), and do...1950, Amy Marjorie Dale, Stasimon and Hyporcheme, Eranos, XLVIII, pages 14-20, reprinted in 1969, Collected Papers of A. M. Dale, Volume 2, page 34

Forms of stasimon

pluralstasima

Origin of stasimon

From Ancient Greek στάσιμον (stásimon, “stationary”); compare stasis.

Questions about stasimon

What does stasimon mean?
Stasimon means a song of the chorus during a tragedy, continued without the interruption of dialogue or anapaestics.
What part of speech is stasimon?
Stasimon is a noun.
What is the plural of stasimon?
The plural of stasimon is stasima.

Words near stasimon in the dictionary

  1. stasibasiphobia
  2. stasidia
  3. stasidion
  4. Stasik
  5. stasima
  6. stasimon
  7. stasimorphy
  8. stasiology
  9. stasipatric
  10. stasiphobia
  11. stasis

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