hemistichium

== Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἡμιστίχιον (hēmistíkhion). === Noun === hēmistichium n (genitive hēmistichiī or hēmistichī); second declension hemistich ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). === References === “hemistichium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “hemistichium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.