stella

See also: Stella

English

Etymology

From Latin stēlla (“star”). Doublet of estoile and étoile.

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.

Related terms

• Estella
• Estelle
• Estrella
• Stella
• stellar
• stellate
• stellion

 

Anagrams

• all set, sallet

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Corsican

Alternative forms

• stedda
• stidda

Etymology

From Latin stella, from Proto-Italic *stērolā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr. Cognates include Italian stella and Romanian ste.

Noun

stella f (plural stelle)

1. star

References

• http://infcor.adecec.net/

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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

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ˈstella/
• (Milan) IPA^(key): /ˈstɛlla/
• (Milan)

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• Hyphenation: stél‧la

Noun

stella f (plural stelle)

1. a star
   • c. 1226, Francis of Assisi, Cantico delle creature [Canticle of the Creatures]‎^[1], printed by the Biblioteca del Sacro Convento di San Francesco, page 2:

     Laudato ſi mi ſignore ᵱ ſora luna e le ſtelle, in celu lai foꝛmate clarite ⁊ p̃tioſe ⁊ belle.

     Praised be you, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in heaven you have made them clear and precious and beautiful.

2. (heraldry) star, mullet

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/, [ˈst̪eːl.lʲa]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈstel.la/, [ˈst̪ɛl.la]

Noun

stēlla f (genitive stēllae); first declension

1. star

   Synonyms: astēr, astrum, sīdus

2. wandering star, planet

   Synonym: stēlla errāns

3. star shape

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	stēlla	stēllae
Genitive	stēllae	stēllārum
Dative	stēllae	stēllīs
Accusative	stēllam	stēllās
Ablative	stēllā	stēllīs
Vocative	stēlla	stēllae

Derived terms

• stēllāris
• stēllātus
• stēllifer
• stēlliger
• stēlliō

Related terms

• stēllāre

Descendants

Descendants

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• Emilian: strèla
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Corsican: stella, stedda
  • Dalmatian: stala, stalla
  • Istriot: stila
  • Italian: stella
  • Neapolitan: stella
    • Tarantino: stella
  • Sicilian: stidda
    • Maltese: stilla
• Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Aragonese: estrela
• Old French: estoile, esteile
  • English: estoile
  • Gallo: esteill
  • Middle French: estoile
    • French: étoile
      • Haitian Creole: zetwal
      • Mauritian Creole: zetwal
      • Seychellois 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
    • Guinea-Bissau Creole: strela
    • Kabuverdianu: strela
    • Kristang: strela
    • Saramaccan: teréja, teéja, teéa
• Old Occitan: stella
  • Occitan: estela, estiala
• Old Spanish: estrella
  • Catalan: estrella
  • Ladino: estreya
  • Spanish: estrella
    • Papiamentu: strea
    • → Sardinian: streglia (Campidanese)
    • Tagalog: estrelya
• Piedmontese: stèila/steila
• 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:

Campidanese: steddu, → stella

Gallurese: stedda, istella, → stella

Logudorese: isteddu

Nuorese: isteddu, istella

Sassarese: isthella, sthella

• 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
• stella in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• stella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], 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 Occitan

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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• Occitan: estela, estiala

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Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin stēlla, from Proto-Italic *stērolā, a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr, derived from the root *h₂eh₁s- (“to burn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstel.la/

Noun

stella f (plural stellas)

1. (Campidanese) star

   Synonyms: steddu, streglia

stella f (plural stelli)

1. (Gallurese) star

   Synonyms: istella, stedda

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Tarantino

Etymology

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

Noun

stella

1. star