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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin stēlla (“a star”). Doublet of estoile and étoile.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
stella (plural stellae)
- (botany) A star-shaped structure.
- 1939 June, Reed C. Rollins, “Studies in the Genus Lesquerella”, in American Journal of Botany, volume 26, number 6, DOI::
- 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, DOI:, page 350:
- 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, DOI:, page 3860:
- 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.
- (US, numismatics) Alternative letter-case form of Stella.
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “stella”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
Anagrams[edit]
Corsican[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin stella, from Proto-Italic *stērolā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr. Cognates include Italian stella and Romanian stea.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
stella f (plural stelle)
References[edit]
- “stella, stedda, stidda” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa
Interlingua[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin stella, from Proto-Italic *stērolā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.
Noun[edit]
stella (plural stellas)
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin stēlla, from Proto-Italic *stērolā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr. Doublet of étoile.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (standard) IPA(key): /ˈstel.la/
- Rhymes: -ella
- Hyphenation: stél‧la
- (Milan) IPA(key): /ˈstɛl.la/
Audio (Milan) (file)
Noun[edit]
stella f (plural stelle)
- 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.
- (heraldry) star, mullet
Related terms[edit]
- stella alpina
- stella binaria
- stella filante
- stellante
- stellare
- stelletta
- stellina
- stellone
- stelloncino
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Italic *stērolā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
stēlla f (genitive stēllae); first declension
- (literally) a star; (poetic) a constellation
- a wandering star, a planet
- Synonym: stēlla errāns
- a meteor, a shooting star
- a wandering star, a planet
- (transferred sense)
Inflection[edit]
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | stēlla | stēllae |
| Genitive | stēllae | stēllārum |
| Dative | stēllae | stēllīs |
| Accusative | stēllam | stēllās |
| Ablative | stēllā | stēllīs |
| Vocative | stēlla | stēllae |
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Descendants[edit]
Descendants of stella in other languages
- → Danish: Stella
- → Dutch: Stella
- Emilian: strèla
- → English: stella, Stella
- → Esperanto: stelo
- Ido: stelo
- → Faroese: Stella
- → German: Stella
- → Icelandic: Stella
- → Interlingua: stella
- → Interlingue: stelle
- Italo-Dalmatian:
- Navarro-Aragonese:
- Aragonese: estrela
- → Novial: stele
- Old French: estoile, esteile, estelle
- Old Leonese:
- → Old Occitan: stella
- Old Portuguese: estrela, strela
- Old Spanish: estrella
- Piedmontese: stèila, steila
- Common Romanian:
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Sardinian:
- → Spanish: Estela
- → Swedish: Stella
- Venetian: stéła
- → Volapük: stel
References[edit]
- 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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)
- the regular courses of the stars: motus stellarum constantes et rati
Neapolitan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
stella f (plural stelle)
Descendants[edit]
- Tarantino: stella
Old Occitan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin stella, from Proto-Italic *stērolā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.
Noun[edit]
stella f (oblique plural stellas, nominative singular stella, nominative plural stellas)
Descendants[edit]
Sardinian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin stēlla, from Proto-Italic *stērolā, a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr, derived from the root *h₂eh₁s- (“to burn”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
stella f (plural stellas)
stella f (plural stelli)
Tarantino[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Neapolitan stella, Latin stella, from Proto-Italic *stērolā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.
Noun[edit]
stella
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