stanza

From Italian stanza, from Vulgar Latin *stantia ("standing, stopping-place"), from Latin stāns/stantis, the present participle of stō, stāre ("to stand"), itself from Proto-Italic *staēō and ultimately Proto-Indo-European *sth₂éh₁yeti, a stative verb from the root *steh₂-, which also gives English "stand."

The word began as a plain notion of standing or stopping in one place, then in Italian narrowed to mean a room in a house — and from there, a self-contained group of lines in a poem, a place where the verse pauses before moving on.

It's a doublet of "stance," meaning the two words descend from the same Latin source but arrived in English by different routes.