stern

See also Stern

English

Wikipedia

Etymology 1

From Middle English stern, sterne, sturne, from Old English styrne (“stern, grave, strict, austere, hard, severe, cruel”), from Proto-Germanic *sturnijaz (“angry, astonished, shocked”), from Proto-Indo-European *ster-, *ter- (“rigid, stiff”). Cognate with Scots stern (“bold, courageous, fierce, resolute”), Old High German stornēn (“to be astonished”), Dutch stuurs (“glum, austere”), Swedish stursk (“insolent”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: stû(r)n, IPA: /stɜː(ɹ)n/, X-SAMPA: /st3:(r\)n/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n

Adjective

stern (comparative sterner, superlative sternest)

1. Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
2. Grim and forbidding in appearance.

Translations

having a hardness and severity of nature or manner

• Arabic: صارِم (ar) (Saarim), مُتَشَدّد (ar) (mutashaddid)
• Bulgarian: суров (bg) (suróv) m, строг (bg) (strog) m, твърд (bg) (tvǎrd) m
• Finnish: ankara (fi)
• Georgian: სასტიკი (ka) (sastiki)
• German: streng (de)
• Greek: αυστηρός (el) (afstirós)
• Hungarian: szigorú (hu), rideg (hu)
• Italian: austero (it), severo (it), duro (it), rigido (it)
• Japanese: 厳格な (ja) (げんかくな, genkaku na)
• Latin: firmatus (la)

• Portuguese: severo (pt), austero (pt), rígido (pt)
• Romanian: dur (ro), sever (ro)
• Russian: строгий (ru) (strógij), суровый (ru) (suróvyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic:

  Roman: jak (sh), snažan (sh), čvrst (sh), čeličan (sh), grubost (sh), surovost (sh), strogost (sh)

• Slovak: neúprosný (sk), tvrdý (sk), prísny (sk)
• Spanish: severo (es)
• Swedish: sträng (sv), rigorös (sv), strikt (sv)
• Turkish: sert (tr), haşin (tr), katı (tr)

grim and forbidding in appearance

• Bulgarian: неприветлив (bg) (neprivétliv) m, недружелюбен (bg) (nedruželjúben) m, негостоприемен (bg) (negostopriémen) m, мрачен (bg) (mráčen) m
• Finnish: ankara (fi)
• Greek: βλοσυρός (el) (blosyrós)
• Hungarian: zord (hu)

• Italian: arcigno (it), inflessibile (it)
• Japanese: 荘厳な (ja) (そうごんな, sōgon na)
• Russian: мрачный (ru) (mráčnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: gruamach (gd)
• Slovak: neprívetivý (sk)

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• Mandarin: 嚴厲, 严厉 (yánlì)
• Dutch: streng (nl)
• French: sévère
• German: streng (de), ernst (de)

• Italian: severo (it)
• Portuguese: severo (pt)
• Spanish: severo (es)
• Telugu: కఠినమైన (kaThinamaina)

Etymology 2

Noun

Wikipedia stern (plural sterns)

1. (nautical) The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel.

Antonyms

• bow

Derived terms

• from stem to stern

Translations

the rear part or after end of a ship or vessel

• Asturian: popa (ast) f
• Bulgarian: кърма (bg) (kǎrmá) f
• Catalan: popa (ca) f
• Chinese: 船尾 (chuánwěi)
• Chinese Characters: 舳
• Czech: záď (cs) f
• Danish: agterstævn (da)
• Dutch: achtersteven (nl) m
• Estonian: ahter (et)
• Finnish: perä (fi), ahteri (fi)
• French: poupe (fr) f
• Galician: popa (gl) f
• German: Heck (de) n, Schiffshinterteil (de) n, Hinterschiff (de) n

• Greek: πρύμνη (el) (prýmni) f
• Hungarian: tat (hu), hajótat (hu)
• Italian: poppa (it) f
• Japanese: 船尾 (ja) (せんび, senbi)
• Korean: 선미 (ko) (seonmi)
• Latin: puppis (la) f
• Polish: rufa (pl) f
• Portuguese: popa (pt) f
• Russian: корма (ru) (kormá) f
• Slovak: korma (sk) f
• Spanish: popa (es) f
• Swedish: akter (sv) c
• Volapük: pödanaf (vo), pödastev (vo)

Anagrams

• nerts
• rents, 'rents
• snert
• terns

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Mòcheno

Etymology

From Old High German sterno, from Proto-Germanic *sternon, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

Noun

stern m(please provide plural)

1. star (luminous dot appearing in the night sky)

References

• Anthony R. Rowley, Liacht as de sproch: Grammatica della lingua mòchena Deutsch-Fersentalerisch, TEMI, 2003.