couplet

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English

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couplet

Etymology

From French couplet, from couple + -et. Doublet of cabaletta.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkʌp.lət/, /ˈkʌplɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -ʌplət

Noun

couplet (plural couplets)

A set of two things, particularly
Coordinate terms: singlet, triplet, quadruplet, tetraplet, quintuplet, pentuplet, sextuplet, septuplet, octuplet, nonuplet, decuplet, centuplet, multiplet
1. (literature) A pair of lines, typically with rhyming end words.
  Coordinate terms: tercet, quatrain, cinquain, sestet, septet, octave
2. A pair of one-way streets which carry opposing directions of traffic through gridded urban areas.
  5th Street is one-way west only and 6th Street is one-way east only. Together, they form a couplet in Downtown Los Angeles.
  
  Synonym: one-way pair
3. (taxonomy) A pair of two mutually exclusive choices in a dichotomous key.
  - 2001, Stephen T. Ross, The Inland Fishes of Mississippi, page 33:
    The dichotomous keys are constructed so that each couplet presents a set of alternative choices.
  - 2004, Shin'ichiro Ishikawa, An Exploration of a New Poetic Expression Beyond Dichotomy:
    As long as the correct statement of each couplet is chosen, and the unknown organism is included in the key, a confident identification is usually achieved.

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:duo

Derived terms

Translations

in poetry, a pair of lines with rhyming end words

Armenian: բեյթ (hy) (beytʻ), երկյակ (hy) (erkyak)
Azerbaijani: beyt (az)
Belarusian: купле́т m (kupljét), двуве́рш m (dvuvjérš)
Bulgarian: купле́т m (kuplét), двусти́шие n (dvustíšie)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 對句 / 对句 (zh) (duìjù)
Czech: dvojverší n
Esperanto: strofo
Finnish: kupletti (fi), säepari
French: couplet (fr) m
Georgian: ბაითი (ka) (baiti)
German: Couplet (de) n
Greek: κουπλέ (el) n (kouplé)
Hausa: ƙwàr̃ f
Indonesian: bait (id), kuplet (id), untai (id)
Japanese: 対句 (ja) (ついく, tsuiku)
Korean: 대구(對句) (ko) (daegu)
Macedonian: двостих m (dvostih), купле́т m (kuplét)
Persian: بِیْت (fa) (beyt)
Polish: dwuwiersz m, dystych m
Portuguese: parelha (pt) f
Romanian: distih (ro) n
Russian: купле́т (ru) m (kuplét), двусти́шие (ru) n (dvustíšije)
Slovak: kuplet m
Slovene: distih m
Sundanese: pada
Tagalog: dulay, dalawahan, kopla
Telugu: ద్విపద (te) (dvipada)
Turkish: beyit (tr)
Ukrainian: купле́т m (kuplét), двові́рш m (dvovírš)
Vietnamese: đối (vi), câu đối (vi)

Anagrams

octuple

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French couplet, from Middle French couplet, from Old French couplet.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kuˈplɛt/
Audio: (file)
Hyphenation: cou‧plet
Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

couplet n (plural coupletten, diminutive coupletje n)

verse of a song

Antonyms

refrein

Descendants

→ Papiamentu: kuplèt, couplet

French

Etymology

From couple +‎ -et.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ku.plɛ/
Audio: (file)

Noun

couplet m (plural couplets)

(music) verse
(literature) couplet

Descendants

→ Dutch: couplet
→ English: couplet
→ German: Couplet
→ Spanish: cuplé
→ Russian: купле́т (kuplét)

See also

refrain

Further reading

“couplet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

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