From Italian stanza, from Vulgar Latin *stantia, from Latin stans, from stō, stāre, from itc-pro *staēō, from Proto-Indo-European *sth₂éh₁yeti, stative verb from *steh₂- (whence English stand).

• IPA: /ˈstænzə/

stanza (plural stanzas)

1. A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse.
2. (architecture) An apartment or division in a building.
3. (computing) An XML element which acts as basic unit of meaning in XMPP.
   • 2011, P. Saint-Andre, RFC 6120 - Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core:

     Definition of XML Stanza: An XML stanza is the basic unit of meaning in XMPP.

   • 2009, Tim Riley, Adam Goucher, Beautiful Testing: Leading Professionals Reveal How They Improve Software:

     Whenever an XMPP client generates an XML stanza, it typically constructs the XML of the stanza by building up a structured document […]

   • 2009, John Rittinghouse, James F. Ransome, Cloud Computing: Implementation, Management, and Security:

     Technically speaking, federation is the ability for two XMPP servers in different domains to exchange XML stanzas.

4. (computing) A section of a configuration file consisting of a related group of lines.
5. (broadcasting) A segment; a portion of a broadcast devoted to a particular topic.
6. (sports) A period; an interval into which a sporting event is divided.

• stance
• stand

• French: strophe, stance
• German: Strophe
• Italian: strofa
• Portuguese: estrofe
• Russian: строфа́
• Spanish: estrofa