stiria

See also: Stiria

English

Etymology

From Latin stīria (“icicle”).

Noun

stiria (plural stiriae)

1. An icicle-shaped concretion.
   • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section I:

     the Microscope can afford us hundreds of Instances of Points many thousand times sharper: such as […] the ends of the stiriæ or small parallelipipeds of Amianthus […].

Anagrams

• Istria

Latin

Etymology

Unknown. Suggested to be from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“stiff”). If so, possibly cognate with sterilis, strēnuus. See also Old English steorfan (“to die”), Latin torpeō, Lithuanian tirpstu (“to become rigid”), Old Church Slavonic трупети (trupeti).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈstiː.ri.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈstiː.ri.a]

Noun

stīria f (genitive stīriae); first declension

1. icicle, ice drop, hoarfrost
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Vergilius, Georgicon 3.366–367:

     […] Stiriaque impexis induruit horrida barbis,
     Interea toto non setius aere ningit.

     […] hoarfrost clings to their uncombed, shaggy beards while the whole sky keeps on sheding snow.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	stīria	stīriae
genitive	stīriae	stīriārum
dative	stīriae	stīriīs
accusative	stīriam	stīriās
ablative	stīriā	stīriīs
vocative	stīria	stīriae

Derived terms

• stilla

Descendants

• ⇒ Sicilian: stizza (via an unattested Vulgar Latin intermediate form)
• → English: stiria

References

• “stiria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “stiria”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “stiria”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “stiria”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly