storea

Latin

Alternative forms

• storia

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃-. Cognate with Ancient Greek στόρνυμι (stórnumi, “scatter”), στρατός (stratós, “army, people, body of men”), Old English strewian (English strew) and Latin sternō, strāmen and torus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsto.re.a/, [ˈs̠t̪ɔreä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsto.re.a/, [ˈst̪ɔːreä]

Noun

storea f (genitive storeae); first declension

1. mat (of rush or straw)

   Synonyms: teges, matta

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	storea	storeae
Genitive	storeae	storeārum
Dative	storeae	storeīs
Accusative	stoream	storeās
Ablative	storeā	storeīs
Vocative	storea	storeae

Descendants

• Catalan: estora
• French: store
  • → Catalan: estor
  • → Galician: estor
  • → German: Store
  • → Portuguese: estore
• Italian: stuoia
• Piedmontese: steuja
• Old Galician-Portuguese: esteira
  • Galician: esteira
• Old Spanish: estuera
  • Spanish: estera
    • → Portuguese: esteira

References

• “storea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “storea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• storea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.