sdrucciola
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian sdrucciola (feminine form of sdrucciolo (“slippery; stressed on the antepenult”)).
Adjective
sdrucciola (not comparable)
- (rare, prosody, of a rhyme) Formed of words stressed on their antepenults and rhyming on all three final syllables.
- Note that ending that couplet’s lines with the words ‘reparate’ and ‘separate’ would create a rhyme sdrucciola, if that helps.
Related terms
- sdrucciolo
- versi sdruccioli
References
- “‖ˈsdrucciola, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈzdruttʃola/
- Hyphenation: sdrùc‧cio‧la
Adjective
sdrucciola f sg
- Feminine singular of adjective sdrucciolo.
Verb
sdrucciola
- inflection of sdrucciolare:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative