rima

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

Borrowing from Latin rīma (“a cleft, crack, fissure, chink”).

Shirokova, Rima, 259, 667, 690-693, 696-697. — Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, United States. Warren Commission
Ottava rima was his favourite verse, and he was fond of a musical accompaniment. — The Beginnings of Poetry, Francis Barton Gummere
The "Spenserian stanza," in which the Faerie Queene was written, was adapted from the ottava rima of Ariosto. — From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors, Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

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