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distique

/dis.tik/

adjective/dis.tik/

distichous (arranged in two rows on each side of an axis); having two rows of facets around each base

From Latin distichon (“a poem of two verses, a distich consisting of a hexameter and a pentameter”), from Ancient Greek δίστιχον (dístikhon).

noun, masculine/dis.tik/plural: distiques

distich, couplet (verse of two lines, especially one that makes sense on its own)

From Latin distichon (“a poem of two verses, a distich consisting of a hexameter and a pentameter”), from Ancient Greek δίστιχον (dístikhon).