stroma

See also: Stroma and stromą

English

Etymology

From Latin strōma (“mattress, bed covering”), from Ancient Greek στρῶμα (strôma, “bed”), from στόρνυμι (stórnumi, “to stretch out”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: strō′mə
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈstɹəʊ̯.mə/

  Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈstɹoʊ̯.mə/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈstɹəʉ̯.mə/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈstɹɐʉ̯.mə/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈstɹo.mə/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˈsʈɾoː.ma/
• Rhymes: -əʊmə
• Hyphenation: stro‧ma

Noun

stroma (plural stromata)

1. (anatomy) The tissue structure of an organ, etc., that serves to support it.

   Antonym: parenchyma

Derived terms

• stromal
• stromatic
• vascular stroma

Related terms

• pseudostroma
• stromagenesis
• stromatal
• stromatization

Translations

the tissue structure of an organ

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 基質 / 基质 (zh) (jīzhì)

• French: stroma (fr) m
• Italian: stroma (it) m
• Kazakh: строма (stroma)
• Latin: strōma n
• Malayalam: പീഠിക (ml) (pīṭhika)
• Maori: wēkāriki
• Polish: zrąb (pl) m
• Portuguese: estroma m
• Spanish: estroma m

See also

• trabecula

Further reading

• “stroma”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Martos, Mastro, Mostar, Mostra, stroam, to arms, tormas

Albanian

Noun

stroma

1. inflection of stromë:
   1. definite nominative singular
   2. indefinite nominative/accusative plural

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stʁɔ.ma/

• Audio (France (Agen)):

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• Hyphenation: stro‧ma

Noun

stroma m (plural stromas)

1. stroma

Further reading

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

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstrɔ.ma/
• Rhymes: -ɔma
• Hyphenation: strò‧ma

Noun

stroma m (plural stromi)

1. stroma

Related terms

• stromale
• stromatico

Anagrams

• mastro, mostra, smorta

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek στρῶμᾰ (strômă, “bed”), from στόρνῡμι (stórnūmi, “to stretch out”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈstroː.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈstrɔː.ma]
• Hyphenation: strō‧ma

Noun

strōma n (genitive strōmatis); third declension

1. blanket; bedcover; coverlet
2. (figurative, in the plural) miscellaneous texts (covering a variety of subjects)
3. stroma

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	strōma	strōmata
genitive	strōmatis	strōmatum
dative	strōmatī	strōmatibus
accusative	strōma	strōmata
ablative	strōmate	strōmatibus
vocative	strōma	strōmata

Further reading

• “stroma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “stroma”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstrɔ.ma/
• Rhymes: -ɔma
• Syllabification: stro‧ma

Adjective

stroma

1. feminine nominative/vocative singular of stromy