stare

See also Stare

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Middle English staren, from Old English starian (“to stare”), from Proto-Germanic *starjaną, *staraijaną (“to be fixed, be rigid”), from Proto-Indo-European *stere-, *strē- (“strong, steady”). Cognate with Dutch staren (“to stare”), German starren (“to stare”), Norwegian stare (“to stare”), German starr (“stiff”). More at start.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛə(r)
• Homophone: stair

Verb

stare (third-person singular simple present stares, present participle staring, simple past and past participle stared)

1. (intransitive, construed with at) To look fixedly (at something).
   • 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure Part 2

     Her sturdy stallion had now unbutton'd, and produced naked, stiff, and erect, that wonderful machine, which I had never seen before, and which, for the interest my own seat of pleasure began to take furiously in it, I star'd at with all the eyes I had

Troponyms

• gaze, to stare intently or earnestly
• ogle, to stare covetously or amorously

Derived terms

• stare someone in the face

Translations

To look fixedly

• Catalan: mirar fixament (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 凝視 (cmn), 凝视 (cmn) (níngshì), 瞪眼 (cmn) (dèngyǎn), (informal) 盯著 (cmn), 盯着 (cmn) (dīng zhe)

• Czech: zírat (cs)
• Danish: glo (da), stirre (da)
• Dutch: staren (nl)
• Finnish: tuijottaa (fi), (in an indifferent manner) tuijotella (fi)
• French: fixer des yeux (fr)
• German: starren (de), anstarren (de)
• Icelandic: stara (is), glápa (is)
• Italian: fissare (it)

• Japanese: 見詰める (ja) (みつめる, mitsumeru), じろじろ見る (ja) (jirojiro-miru)
• Northern Sami: gaifát
• Norwegian: stare (no)
• Polish: gapić się (pl), wpatrywać się (pl)
• Portuguese: fixar o olhar (pt), encarar (pt)
• Russian: пристально смотреть (ru) (pristal'no smotret'), глазеть (ru) (glazét'), таращиться (ru) (taráščit'ja) (colloquial), пялиться (ru) (pjálit'ja) (colloquial), уставиться (ru) (ustávit'ja) (colloquial)
• Scottish Gaelic: dian-amhairc (gd)
• Spanish: observar (es), mirar fijamente (es)
• Swedish: stirra (sv), glo (sv)

Noun

stare (plural stares)

1. A persistent gaze.

Anagrams

• arste, aster, rates, resat, setar, tares, tarse, Taser, taser, tears, teras

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Dutch

Verb

stare

1. singular present subjunctive of staren

Anagrams

• Aster

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin stāre, present active infinitive of stō, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsta.re/, [ˈstaː.re], X-SAMPA: /"sta.re/, ["sta:.re]

• Audio

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Verb

stare (intransitive)

1. to stay, to remain
2. to be
3. to live
   • Mia sorella sta a Roma. - My sister lives in Rome.
4. (followed by a) to keep or stick
5. (followed by a) to be up to
   • Sta a te decidere. - It's up to you to decide.
6. (mathematics) to be
   • 4 sta a 8 come 5 sta a 10. - 4 is to 8 as 5 is to 10.

Synonyms

• (to stay, remain) restare, rimanere
• (to be) essere
• (to live) vivere, abitare
• (to keep etc) attenersi (a)
• (to be up to) toccare (a), spettare (a)

Related terms

• stagione
• stanza
• stare per
• starsene
• starci
• starsi
• stazione

Conjugation

    Conjugation of stare

infinitive	stare
auxiliary verb		essere	gerund		stando
present participle		stante	past participle		stato
person	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative	io	tu	lui/lei	noi	voi	essi/esse
present	sto	stai	sta	stiamo	state	stanno
imperfect	stavo	stavi	stava	stavamo	stavate	stavano
past historic	stetti	stesti	stette	stemmo	steste	stettero
future	starò	starai	starà	staremo	starete	staranno
conditional	io	tu	lui/lei	noi	voi	essi/esse
present	starei	staresti	starebbe	staremmo	stareste	starebbero
subjunctive	che io	che tu	che lui/che lei	che noi	che voi	che essi/che esse
present	stia	stia	stia	stiamo	stiate	stiano
imperfect	stessi	stessi	stesse	stessimo	steste	stessero
imperative	-	tu	lui/lei	noi	voi	essi/esse
		sta, sta', stai	stia	stiamo	state	stiano

Anagrams

• resta, sarte, tersa

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Latin

Wikipedia

Verb

stāre

1. present active infinitive of stō
   1. "to stand"
   2. "to stay, to remain"

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Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈstarɛ]

Adjective

stare

1. nominative neuter singular of stary
2. accusative neuter singular of stary
3. nominative plural of stary
4. accusative plural of stary

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Polish

Adjective

stare

1. Neuter form of stary

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Romanian

Etymology

From the verb sta.

Noun

stare f (plural stări)

1. status, standing, situation, position, condition

Derived terms

• în stare

See also

• stat

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Swedish

Noun

stare c

1. starling (a bird)

Declension

Declension of stare

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	stare	staren	starar	stararna
genitive	stares	starens	starars	stararnas

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Tarantino

Verb

stare (intransitive)

1. To stay, remain
2. To be

Conjugation

• Full conjugation needed.
• Present tense:- stoche, sté or stéje, sté or stéje, stáme, státe, stonne