See also: Stella, -stella, and -stellä

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin stēlla (a star). Doublet of estoile, étoile, star, and aster.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈstɛl.ə/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛlə

NounEdit

stella (plural stellae)

  1. (botany) A star-shaped structure.
    • 1939 June, Reed C. Rollins, “Studies in the Genus Lesquerella”, in American Journal of Botany, volume 26, number 6, →DOI:
      Plants of this collection are several decimeters taller; the pedicels are more remote in the inforescence; the stellae are larger and form a less dense cover on plant parts, and the siliques are slightly larger than in the usual form of the species.
    • 1997 July, Maria de Fátima Agra; Michael Nee, “A new species of Solanum subgenus Leptostemonum (Solanaceae) from northeastern Brazil”, in Brittonia, volume 49, number 3, →DOI, page 350:
      Stems and young branches terete, viscid, densely ferruginous-tomentose with sessile to short-stalked pauciradiate stellae bearing greatly prolonged 4-6-celled midpoints, these 0.1-0.2 cm long, gland-tipped, strongly armed with ferruginous laterally compressed prickles, these broad-based and sparsely glandular in the basal quarter.
    • 2008 December, Fang Chen; XiPing Dong, “The internal structure of Early Cambrian fossil embryo Olivooides revealed in the light of synchrotron X-ray tomographic microscopy”, in Chinese Science Bulletin, volume 53, number 24, →DOI, page 3860:
      The morphological and statistic analyses are also given to the stellae structure of Olivooides and Punctatus, which indicates that this structure is a result of adaptive evolu- tion to a lifestyle of fast-attaching after hatching, probably with the function of mucilage secretion.
  2. (US, numismatics) Alternative letter-case form of Stella.

Derived termsEdit

Related termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • stella”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

AnagramsEdit

CorsicanEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin stella, from Proto-Italic *stērolā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr. Cognates include Italian stella and Romanian stea.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

stella f (plural stelle)

  1. star

ReferencesEdit

InterlinguaEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin stella, from Proto-Italic *stērolā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

NounEdit

stella (plural stellas)

  1. star

ItalianEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Inherited from Latin stēlla, from Proto-Italic *stērolā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr. Doublet of étoile.

PronunciationEdit

  • (standard) IPA(key): /ˈstel.la/
    • Rhymes: -ella
    • Syllabification: stél‧la
  • (Milan) IPA(key): /ˈstɛl.la/

NounEdit

stella f (plural stelle)

  1. star
    • c. 1226, Francis of Assisi, Cantico delle creature [Canticle of the Creatures]‎[1], page 2:
      Laudato si misignore per sora luna ele stelle, in celu lai formate clarite et pretiose et belle.
      Praised be you, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in heaven you have made them clear and precious and beautiful.
    • 2004, “I nomi delle stelle”, in Sputi, performed by Marco Paolini e i Mercanti di Liquore:
      I nomi delle stelle son tutti quanti belli / Sirio, Vega, Andromeda, l'Orsa e i Due Gemelli
      (please add an English translation of this quote)
  2. (heraldry) star, mullet
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Etymology 2Edit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈstel.la/
  • Rhymes: -ella
  • Syllabification: stél‧la

VerbEdit

stella

  1. inflection of stellare (to adorn with stars):
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Etymology 3Edit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈstɛl.la/
  • Rhymes: -ɛlla
  • Syllabification: stèl‧la

VerbEdit

stella

  1. inflection of stellare (to shape (the ribs of a ship's hull)):
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

AnagramsEdit

LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Italic *stērolā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

stēlla f (genitive stēllae); first declension

  1. (literally) a star; (poetic) a constellation
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.295-296:
      Quis vetat et stēllās, ut quaeque oriturque caditque, dīcere?
      And who forbids me to speak about the stars, how each one rises and sets?
    Synonyms: astēr, astrum, sīdus
    1. a wandering star, a planet
      Synonym: stēlla errāns
    2. a meteor, a shooting star
  2. (transferred sense)
    1. a star shape, a figure of a star
    2. a bright point on a precious stone
    3. a starfish
    4. a glowworm
    5. a pupil of an eye
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InflectionEdit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative stēlla stēllae
Genitive stēllae stēllārum
Dative stēllae stēllīs
Accusative stēllam stēllās
Ablative stēllā stēllīs
Vocative stēlla stēllae

Derived termsEdit

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DescendantsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • stella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • stella”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • stella in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • stella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the regular courses of the stars: motus stellarum constantes et rati
    • the planets: stellae errantes, vagae
    • the fixed stars: stellae inerrantes (N. D. 2. 21. 54)

LombardEdit

Alternative formsEdit

  • stèlla (Classical Milanese Orthography)

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

stella f

  1. star

Further readingEdit

NeapolitanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin stēlla.

NounEdit

stella f (plural stelle)

  1. star

DescendantsEdit

Old OccitanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin stella, from Proto-Italic *stērolā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

NounEdit

stella f (oblique plural stellas, nominative singular stella, nominative plural stellas)

  1. star

DescendantsEdit

SardinianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin stēlla, from Proto-Italic *stērolā, a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr, derived from the root *h₂eh₁s- (to burn).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

stella f (plural stellas)

  1. (Campidanese) star
    Synonyms: steddu, streglia

stella f (plural stelli)

  1. (Gallurese) star
    Synonyms: istella, stedda

TarantinoEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Neapolitan stella, Latin stella, from Proto-Italic *stērolā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

NounEdit

stella

  1. star