stella

See also: Stella, -stella, and -stellä

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin stēlla (“a star”). Doublet of estoile, étoile, star, and aster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɛl.ə/

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• Rhymes: -ɛlə

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, DOI:10.1002/j.1537-2197.1939.tb09297.x:

     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:10.2307/2807835, 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:10.1007/s11434-008-0452-9, 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.

2. (US, numismatics) Alternative letter-case form of Stella.

Derived terms

• stellar
• stellate
• stellify
• stelliform

Related terms

• constellate
• constellation
• constellatory
• Estella
• Estelle
• Estrella
• Stella
• stellion

 

References

• “stella”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

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 stea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstelːa/

Noun

stella f (plural stelle)

1. star

References

• “stella, stedda, stidda” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

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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 1

Inherited from Latin stēlla, from Proto-Italic *stērolā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr. Doublet of étoile.

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ˈstel.la/
  • Rhymes: -ella
  • Hyphenation: stél‧la
• (Milan) IPA^(key): /ˈstɛl.la/

  • Audio (Milan)

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Noun

stella f (plural stelle)

1. star
   • c. 1226, Francis of Assisi, Cantico delle creature [Canticle of the Creatures]‎^[1], page 2:

     Laudato si misignore per sora luna ele stelle, in celu lai formate clarite et pretiose et belle.

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

   • 2004, “I nomi delle stelle”, in Sputi, performed by Marco Paolini e i Mercanti di Liquore:

     I nomi delle stelle son tutti quanti belli / Sirio, Vega, Andromeda, l'Orsa e i Due Gemelli

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

2. (heraldry) star, mullet

Related terms

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

 

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstel.la/
• Rhymes: -ella
• Hyphenation: stél‧la

Verb

stella

1. inflection of stellare (“to adorn with stars”):
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɛl.la/
• Rhymes: -ɛlla
• Hyphenation: stèl‧la

Verb

stella

1. inflection of stellare (“to shape (the ribs of a ship's hull)”):
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• stalle

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsteːl.la/, [ˈs̠t̪eːlːʲä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈstel.la/, [ˈst̪ɛlːä]

Noun

stēlla f (genitive stēllae); first declension

1. (literally) a star; (poetic) a constellation
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.295-296:

     Quis vetat et stēllās, ut quaeque oriturque caditque, dīcere?

     And who forbids me to speak about the stars, how each one rises and sets?

   Synonyms: astēr, astrum, sīdus

   1. a wandering star, a planet

      Synonym: stēlla errāns

   2. a meteor, a shooting star
2. (transferred sense)
   1. a star shape, a figure of a star
   2. a bright point on a precious stone
   3. a starfish
   4. a glowworm
   5. a pupil of an eye

Inflection

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

• Stēlla
• stēllāris
• stēllātus
• stēllifer
• stēlliger
• stēllimicāns
• stēlliō
• stēllō
• stēllula

 

Related terms

• stēllāns
• stēllāre
• stēllātūra

Descendants

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:
  • → Corsican: stella, stedda, stidda
  • Dalmatian: stala, stalla
  • Istriot: stila
  • Italian: stella, Stella
  • → Neapolitan: stella
    • Tarantino: stella
  • Sicilian: stiḍḍa, stidda; steḍḍa, stella
    • Maltese: stilla
• Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Aragonese: estrela
• → Novial: stele
• Old French: estoile, esteile, estelle
  • Bourguignon: étoile
  • English: estoile, Estella, Estelle
  • Gallo: esteill
  • Middle French: estoile
    • French: étoile
      • Haitian Creole: zetwal
      • Mauritian Creole: zetwal
      • Seychellois Creole: zetwal
      • → English: étoile, etoile
      • → Italian: étoile
  • Norman: êtaile, éteile, ételle, etel
  • Picard: étole
  • Walloon: stoele, sitoele
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: estrella
  • Extremaduran: estrella
  • Leonese: estrella
  • Mirandese: streilha
• → Old Occitan: stella
  • Occitan: estela, estiala
  • Occitan: Estela
    • → French: Estelle
• Old Portuguese: estrela, strela
  • Galician: estrela
  • Portuguese: estrela, estrella
    • Guinea-Bissau Creole: strela
    • Kabuverdianu: strela
    • Kristang: strela
    • Saramaccan: teréja, teéja, teéa
• Old Spanish: estrella
  • Catalan: estrella
  • Ladino: estreya
  • Spanish: estrella
    • Papiamentu: strea
    • → Sardinian: streglia (Campidanese)
    • Tagalog: estrelya
  • Spanish: Estrella
    • → Cebuano: Estrella
    • → English: Estrella
    • → Tagalog: Estrella
• Common Romanian:
  • Aromanian: steauã, steauo, stiau
  • Istro-Romanian: ste
  • Megleno-Romanian: steau̯ă
  • Romanian: stea
• Padanian:
  • Friulian: stele
  • Ladin: stëila
  • Lombard: stela
  • Ligurian: stela
  • Piedmontese: stèila, steila
  • Romansch: staila, steila, stéla
• Sardinian:
  • Campidanese: steddu, → stella
  • Gallurese: stedda, istella, → stella
  • Logudorese: isteddu
  • Nuorese: isteddu, istella
  • Sassarese: isthella, sthella
• → Spanish: Estela
• → Swedish: Stella
• Venetian: stéła
• → Volapük: stel

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 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)
    

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Lombard

Alternative forms

• stèlla (Classical Milanese Orthography)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɛla/

Noun

stella f

1. star

Further reading

• The entry "stella" at the Lombard edition of Wiktionary

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Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin stēlla.

Noun

stella f (plural stelle)

1. star

Descendants

• Tarantino: stella

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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

• Occitan: estela, estiala
• Occitan: Estela
  • → French: Estelle

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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): /ˈstɛlla/

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

Noun

stella

1. star