sternuo
Latin
Etymology
Presumably imitative or from a Proto-Indo-European root connected to Polish kichać, Russian чихать (čixatʹ), Lithuanian čiáudėti, Sanskrit क्षु (kṣu), Breton strevia and Ancient Greek πταρμός (ptarmós, “a sneezing”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈster.nu.oː/, [ˈs̠t̪ɛrnuoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈster.nu.o/, [ˈst̪ɛrnuo]
Verb
sternuō (present infinitive sternuere, perfect active sternuī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem
- (intransitive) I sneeze
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References
- “sternuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sternuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sternuo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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