sterne

See also: Sterne

English

Adjective

sterne (comparative sterner, superlative sternest)

1. Obsolete spelling of stern.

Noun

sterne (plural sternes)

1. Obsolete spelling of stern.

Anagrams

• Enters, Ernest, Senter, enters, entres, ernest, nester, renest, rentes, resent, strene, tenser, treens

French

Etymology

Of North Germanic origin, such as Danish terne or Swedish tärna, both from Old Norse þerna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɛʁn/

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• Homophone: sternes

Noun

sterne f (plural sternes)

1. tern (bird)

Further reading

• “sterne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• entres, entrés
• Ernest
• rentes, rentés
• ternes

Italian

Noun

sterne f

1. plural of sterna

Latin

Verb

sterne

1. second-person singular present active imperative of sternō

Middle English

Alternative forms

• stern, starne, starn, sterrne, steorrne

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse stjarna, from Proto-Germanic *sternǭ (“star”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr. Doublet of sterre.

Noun

sterne (plural sternes)

1. a luminous body visible in the sky; a star or planet
2. the shape of a star

Synonyms

• sterre
• tungol
• planete

Derived terms

• sterne of þe see
• sterne of sternes
• sterneleme
• blasynge sterne
• day sterne
• even sterne
• lode sterne
• se sterne

Descendants

• Northern English: starn
• Scots: starn

Further reading

• “sterne, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 August 2018.