stea

Romanian

Alternative forms

• steauă (popular)

Etymology

With apocope from colloquial steauă, from archaic steală, from Latin stēlla, from Proto-Italic *stērolā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ste̯a/

Noun

stea f (plural stele)

1. star (celestial body)
2. star (star-shaped thing)
3. star (most important person in e.g. a film)

Declension

Declension of stea

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) stea	steaua	(niște) stele	stelele
genitive/dative	(unei) stele	stelei	(unor) stele	stelelor
vocative	stea		stelelor

Derived terms

• înstela
• stelar
• stelesc
• steli
• stelos

Related terms

• stei

Verb

stea

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of sta
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of sta

References

• stea in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)