Stern

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See also: stern and stern-

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

  • As a German and Jewish surname, from the noun Stern (“star”). This was also borrowed into various Slavic languages such as Serbo-Crotian and Slovenian.
  • As an English surname, from the adjective stern.

Proper noun

Stern (plural Sterns)

  1. A surname.

Derived terms

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Borrowed from German Stern.

Proper noun

Stern ?

  1. a surname from German

German

Sterne am Nachthimmel — Stars in the night sky (1, 2)
Eine Animation des Sterns Sirius — An animation of the star Sirius. (2)
Auf der Flagge von Chile ist ein weißer Stern. — There is a white star on the flag of Chile. (3,4)

Etymology

From Middle High German stërne, from Old High German sterno, from Proto-West Germanic *sternō, from Proto-Germanic *sternǭ, *sternô, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

See also Dutch ster (“star”), Old English steorra (“star”) (Modern English star), Danish stjerne (“star”), Swedish stjärna (“star”), Icelandic stjarna (“star”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌽𐍉 (stairnō); also Latin stēlla (“star”), Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr, “star”) and Sanskrit तारा (tārā, “star”). Doublet of Aster and Star.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃtɛʁn/, ,
  • Rhymes: -ɛʁn
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Noun

Stern m (strong, genitive Sternes or Sterns, plural Sterne, diminutive Sternchen n or Sternlein n)

  1. a star; a small luminous dot that can be seen on the night sky
    • 1924, Friedrich Bernhard Störzner, Das weiße Männchen auf dem Kirchberge, in: Reinhardtswalder Sagenbüchlein, Buchhandlung Otto Schmidt, page 11:
      Droben am Himmel funkelten die Sterne in seltener Pracht.
      Up in the sky the stars sparkled in unusual magnificence.
    • 1919, Aleksey Remizov, translated by Arthur Luther, Legenden und Geschichten‎ (fiction), Leipzig: Kurt Wolff, →ISBN:
      Und die Sterne gingen mit dem nächtlichen Dunkel, der Morgen graute, […]
      And the stars went away with the dark of the night, the morning dawned,
    Morgenstern ― morning star
    Barnards Stern ― Barnard's Star
  2. (astronomy) a star; the actual celestial body
    Synonyms: Gestirn n, Sonne f
  3. (geometry, heraldry) a star, a mullet, or anything that resembles such an object
    fünfzackiger Stern ― five-pointed star
    Davidstern ― Star of David
    Sternenbanner ― stars and stripes (the flag of the USA)
    NATO-Stern ― NATO star
    der rote Stern ― the red star
  4. a star; symbol used as a rating, e.g. for hotels, movies, etc.
    Fünf-Sterne-Hotel ― five-star hotel
  5. (printing, often Sternchen) an asterisk (*)
    Synonym: Asterisk m
    • 2007, Klaus M. Rodewig, Amin Negm-Awad, Objective-C und Cocoa: Programmieren unter Apple Mac OS X, 2nd edition, page 83:
      Bei der Deklaration eines Zeigers kann der Stern (Asterisk) sowohl beim Namen der Variablen (int *zahl) als auch beim Datentyp (int* zahl) stehen.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  6. (figuratively, chiefly Sternchen) a star, starlet, celebrity, something or someone popular
    Synonym: Star m
    ein Schlagerstern(chen) ― a schlager-music starlet
  7. A term of endearment.
  8. (meteorology) a stellar crystal, a snow crystal possessing the shape of a star

Usage notes

  • In the diminutive, the predominant contemporary usage is to employ Sternlein in the sense of “luminous dot” and Sternchen in all other senses.

Declension

Declension of Stern
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der Stern die Sterne
genitive eines des Sternes, Sterns der Sterne
dative einem dem Stern, Sterne1 den Sternen
accusative einen den Stern die Sterne

1Now rare, see notes.

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See also

Proper noun

Stern m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Sterns or (with an article) Stern, feminine genitive Stern, plural Sterns)

  1. a surname

Further reading

Hunsrik

Etymology

From Middle High German stërne, from Old High German sterno.

Pronunciation

Noun

Stern m (plural Stern, diminutive Sternche)

  1. star

Noun

Stern f (plural Sterne)

  1. forehead

Further reading

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Stern.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstɛrn/
  • Rhymes: -ɛrn
  • Syllabification: Stern

Proper noun

Stern m pers

  1. a male surname from German

Declension

Declension of Stern
singular plural
nominative Stern Sternowie
genitive Sterna Sternów
dative Sternowi Sternom
accusative Sterna Sternów
instrumental Sternem Sternami
locative Sternie Sternach
vocative Sternie Sternowie

Proper noun

Stern f (indeclinable)

  1. a female surname from German

Further reading

  • Stern in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from German Stern.

Proper noun

Stern m or f by sense

  1. a surname from German

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Stern.

Proper noun

Stern m or f by sense

  1. a surname from German
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