estor

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French estore. Doublet of estora.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [əsˈtur]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central) [əsˈtor]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [esˈtor]

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• Rhymes: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) -or
• Hyphenation: es‧tor

Noun

estor m (plural estors)

1. sheer (a curtain made of thin material which allows light to pass through)

   Synonym: cortineta transparent

   Hypernym: cortina

Further reading

• “estor”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “estor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “estor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “estor”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Galician

Alternative forms

• estore (reintegrationist)

Etymology

From French store, from Latin storea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈtɔɾ/ [es̺ˈt̪ɔɾ]
• Rhymes: -ɔɾ

• Hyphenation: es‧tor

Noun

estor m (plural estores)

1. blind; shade of a window

Further reading

• “estor”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• “estore”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈeːs.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛs.tor]
• Hyphenation: ēs‧tor

Verb

ēstor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of edō

Old French

Alternative forms

• estour, estur, estorme, estorn

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *sturm (“storm”)

Noun

estor oblique singular, m (oblique plural estors, nominative singular estors, nominative plural estor)

1. battle; combat

Descendants

• Middle French: estor, estour
• → Middle English: stour, store, stor
  • English: stour
  • Scots: sture, stour

Further reading

• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “3. estor”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.
• estur on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin storeader.

French storebor.

Spanish estor

Borrowed from French store.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈtoɾ/ [esˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: es‧tor

Noun

estor m (plural estores)

1. blind (curtain)

   Synonym: cortina

Further reading

• “estor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Zazaki

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: es‧tor

Noun

estor m (female equivalent estore)

2. horse (members of the species Equus ferus)

   Synonyms: osthor m, istor, aspa c