villanelle

From the French villanelle, from Italian villanella, from villano (“peasant”), from Latin villanus (“farmhand”), from villa (“estate”). The origin references the pastoral themes originally associated with this form.

• Rhymes: -ɛl

villanelle (plural villanelles)

1. (poetry) A type of poem, consisting of five tercets and one quatrain, with only two rhymes.

• villanellist

• IPA^(key): /vi.ja.nɛl/

villanelle f (plural villanelles)

1. (poetry) villanelle

• “villanelle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

villanelle f (plural villanelli)

1. (poetry) villanelle