stella

See also: Stella

English

Noun

stella (plural stellae)

1. (botany) A star-shaped structure.
   • 1939 June, Reed C. Rollins, “Studies in the Genus Lesquerella”, in American Journal of Botany, volume 26, number 6:

     Plants of this collection are several decimeters taller; the pedicels are more remote in the inforescence; the stellae are larger and form a less dense cover on plant parts, and the siliques are slightly larger than in the usual form of the species.

   • 1997 July, Maria de Fátima Agra & Michael Nee, “A new species of Solanum subgenus Leptostemonum (Solanaceae) from northeastern Brazil”, in Brittonia, volume 49, number 3:

     Stems and young branches terete, viscid, densely ferruginous-tomentose with sessile to short-stalked pauciradiate stellae bearing greatly prolonged 4-6-celled midpoints, these 0.1-0.2 cm long, gland-tipped, strongly armed with ferruginous laterally compressed prickles, these broad-based and sparsely glandular in the basal quarter.

   • 2008 December, Fang Chen & XiPing Dong, “The internal structure of Early Cambrian fossil embryo Olivooides revealed in the light of synchrotron X-ray tomographic microscopy”, in Chinese Science Bulletin, volume 53, number 24:

     The morphological and statistic analyses are also given to the stellae structure of Olivooides and Punctatus, which indicates that this structure is a result of adaptive evolu- tion to a lifestyle of fast-attaching after hatching, probably with the function of mucilage secretion.

Anagrams

• all set, sallet

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Interlingua

Etymology

From Latin stella, from Proto-Italic *stērolā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

Noun

stella (plural stellas)

1. star

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin stēlla, from Proto-Italic *stērolā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstel.la/, [ˈs̪t̪el̺.l̺a]

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• Hyphenation: stél‧la

Noun

stella f (plural stelle)

1. a star

Related terms

• stella alpina
• stella binaria
• stella filante
• stellante
• stellare
• stelletta
• stellina
• stellone
• stelloncino

Anagrams

• stalle

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *stērolā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsteːl.la/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈstel.la/

Noun

stēlla f (genitive stēllae); first declension

1. star
2. planet

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	stēlla	stēllae
genitive	stēllae	stēllārum
dative	stēllae	stēllīs
accusative	stēllam	stēllās
ablative	stēllā	stēllīs
vocative	stēlla	stēllae

Synonyms

• astrum

Derived terms

• stēllāris
• stēllifer
• stēlliger
• stēlliō

Related terms

• stēllāre

Descendants

Descendants

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• Emilian-Romagnol: strèla
• Esperanto: stelo
  • Ido: stelo
• Interlingua: stella
• Interlingue: stelle
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Corsican: stella, stedda
  • Dalmatian: stala, stalla
  • Istriot: stila
  • Italian: stella
  • Neapolitan: stella
    • Tarantino: stella
  • Sicilian: stidda
    • Maltese: stilla
• Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Aragonese: estrela
• Novial: stele
• Old French: estoile, esteile
  • English: estoile
  • Gallo: esteill
  • Middle French: estoile
    • French: étoile
      • Haitian Creole: zetwal
  • Picard: étole
  • Norman: êtaile, éteile, ételle, etel
  • Walloon: stoele, sitoele
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: estrella
  • Extremaduran: estrella
  • Leonese: estrella
  • Mirandese: streilha

• Old Portuguese: estrela, strela
  • Galician: estrela
  • Portuguese: estrela
    • Kabuverdianu: stréla
    • Malaccan Creole Portuguese: strela
    • Papiamentu: strea
    • Saramaccan: teréja, teéja, teéa
• Old Provençal: stella
  • Catalan: estel, estela
  • Occitan: estela, estiala
• Old Spanish: estrella
  • Ladino: estreya (Latin spelling)
  • Spanish: estrella
    • Catalan: estrella, estrela
    • Isthmus Zapotec: streya
    • Tagalog: estrelya
• Proto-Romanian/Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: steauã, steauo
  • Istro-Romanian: ste
  • Megleno-Romanian: steau̯ă
  • Romanian: stea
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: stele
  • Ladin: stëila
  • Romansch: staila, steila, stéla
• Sardinian: istedda, istella, isteddu
• Venetian: stéła

References

• stella in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• stella in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “stella”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “stella” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the regular courses of the stars: motus stellarum constantes et rati
    
  • the planets: stellae errantes, vagae
    
  • the fixed stars: stellae inerrantes (N. D. 2. 21. 54)
    

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Old Provençal

Etymology

From Latin stella, from Proto-Italic *stērolā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

Noun

stella f (oblique plural stellas, nominative singular stella, nominative plural stellas)

1. star

Descendants

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• Catalan: estel, estela
• Occitan: estela, estiala

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Tarantino

Etymology

From Latin stella, from Proto-Italic *stērolā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

Noun

stella

1. star