Stern

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English

Proper noun

Stern (plural Sterns)

  1. A surname

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Borrowed from German Stern.

Proper noun

Stern ?

  1. a surname from German

German

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Sterne am Nachthimmel — Stars in the night sky (1, 2)
Eine Animation des Sterns Sirius — An animation of the star Sirius. (2)
Auf der Flagge von Chile ist ein weißer Stern. — There is a white star on the flag of Chile. (3,4)

Etymology

From Middle High German [Term?], from Old High German sterno, from Proto-Germanic *sternǭ, *sternô (compare Dutch ster (“star”), Old English steorra (“star”) (Modern English star), Danish stjerne (“star”), Swedish stjärna (“star”), Icelandic stjarna (“star”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌽𐍉 (stairnō)). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr. Further cognates include Latin stēlla (“star”), Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr, “star”) and Sanskrit तारा (tārā, “star”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃtɛʁn/, [ʃtɛʁn], [ʃtɛɐ̯n]
  • Rhymes: -ɛʁn
  • audio:(file)

Noun

Stern m (genitive Sternes or Sterns, plural Sterne, diminutive Sternchen n or Sternlein n)

  1. a star; a small luminous dot that can be seen on the night sky
    Morgenstern — morning star
    Barnards Stern — Barnard's Star
  2. (astronomy) a star; the actual celestial body
  3. (geometry, heraldry) a star, a mullet, or anything that resembles such an object
    fünfzackiger Stern — five-pointed star
    Davidstern — Star of David
    Sternenbanner — stars and stripes (the flag of the USA)
    NATO-Stern — NATO star
    der rote Stern — the red star
  4. a star; the symbol used to rate hotels, movies, etc.
    Fünf-Sterne-Hotel — five-star hotel
  5. (printing, chiefly Sternchen) an asterisk (*)
    • 2007, Klaus M. Rodewig and Amin Negm-Awad, Objective-C und Cocoa: Programmieren unter Apple Mac OS X, 2nd edition, page 83:
      Bei der Deklaration eines Zeigers kann der Stern (Asterisk) sowohl beim Namen der Variablen (int *zahl) als auch beim Datentyp (int* zahl) stehen.
  6. (figuratively, chiefly Sternchen) a star, starlet, celebrity, something or somebody popular
    ein Schlagerstern(chen) — a schlager-music starlet
  7. (meteorology) a stellar crystal, a snow crystal possessing the shape of a star

Declension

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Synonyms

Hypernyms

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Derived terms

See also

Proper noun

Stern m or f (genitive Sterns)

  1. a surname

Further reading

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

Noun

Stern m (plural Stern, diminutive Sternche)

  1. star

Noun

Stern f (plural Sterne)

  1. forehead

Further reading

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Stern.

Proper noun

Stern m pers or f

  1. a masculine surname from German
  2. a feminine surname from German

Declension

Masculine surname:

Declension of Stern
singular plural
nominative Stern Sternowie
genitive Sterna Sternów
dative Sternowi Sternom
accusative Sterna Sternów
instrumental Sternem Sternami
locative Sternie Sternach
vocative Sternie Sternowie

The feminine surname is indeclinable.

Derived terms

See also

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from German Stern.

Proper noun

Stern m or f

  1. a surname from German

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Stern.

Proper noun

Stern m or f

  1. a surname from German
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