sternuto
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sternuto m (plural sternuti)
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
Frequentative of sternuō.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /sterˈnuː.toː/, [s̠t̪ɛrˈnuːt̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /sterˈnu.to/, [st̪erˈnuːt̪o]
Verb edit
sternūtō (present infinitive sternūtāre, perfect active sternūtāvī, supine sternūtātum); first conjugation
- to sneeze (repeatedly or violently)
- Nicholas Everett (ed.), The Alphabet of Galen: Pharmacy from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, University of Toronto Press (publ. 2012).
- Quarum optima est iris illyrica et macedonica, est enim spississima et breuis et non fragilis et subrufa, odore suauissima et gustu linguam uiscide excalefacit et dum tunditur sternutare facit.
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- Nicholas Everett (ed.), The Alphabet of Galen: Pharmacy from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, University of Toronto Press (publ. 2012).
Conjugation edit
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Descendants edit
- Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: stãrnut, stãrnutari, shtirnutedz
- Romanian: strănuta, strănutare
- Italo-Romance:
- Corsican: starnutà, sternutì
- Italian: starnutare, starnutire
- Neapolitan: stranutà, starnutà, stornutà
- Sicilian: stranutari, sranutari
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- French: éternuer
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: esternudar, astornudar, astarnudar
- Occitan: esternudar, estornudar, esternugar, estornugar
- Gascon: estornir, estornuar, esturnedir
- Ibero-Romance:
- Asturian: estornudar
- Spanish: estornudar
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: isturridai, isturridare, isturritare, isturrudai, isturrudare, sturridai
- Borrowings:
- → English: sternutate
References edit
- “sternuto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sternuto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.