strava

See also: sträva

Czech

Alternative forms

• zdrava (dialectal)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sъtrava.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈstrava]

Noun

strava f (diminutive stravička)

1. diet (food a person or animal consumes)
2. board, meals (regular meals)

   Synonym: stravování

Declension

Declension of strava (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	strava	stravy
genitive	stravy	strav
dative	stravě	stravám
accusative	stravu	stravy
vocative	stravo	stravy
locative	stravě	stravách
instrumental	stravou	stravami

Related terms

• stravenka
• stravovací
• stravovat
• stravování
• strávit
• strávník

Further reading

• “strava”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “strava”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “strava”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Latin

Alternative forms

• straba

Etymology

Borrowed from Hunnic, further origins uncertain. Often claimed to be from Proto-Germanic *strawjaną (“to strew”), but if the sense is indeed "funeral feast", a derivation from Proto-Slavic *sъtrava (“food”) is much more probable.

Noun

strava f (genitive stravae); first declension

1. a rite performed by the Huns, perhaps a monument of victory built of captured arms, or a funeral feast

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   Particularly: “[1] [2]”)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	strava	stravae
genitive	stravae	stravārum
dative	stravae	stravīs
accusative	stravam	stravās
ablative	stravā	stravīs
vocative	strava	stravae

References

• “strava”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “strava”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• The World of the Huns: Studies in Their History and Culture. By J. Otto Maenchen-Helfen, edited by Max Knight. 1973, p. 425f., quoting the Getica (in translation)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Related to strȃh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /strǎːʋa/
• Hyphenation: stra‧va

Noun

stráva f (Cyrillic spelling стра́ва)

1. horror, dread

Declension

Declension of strava

	singular	plural
nominative	strava	strave
genitive	strave	strava
dative	stravi	stravama
accusative	stravu	strave
vocative	stravo	strave
locative	stravi	stravama
instrumental	stravom	stravama