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Latin
Pronunciation
Participle
stēllāns (genitive stēllantis); third-declension one-termination participle
- (poetic) bestarred, starry
c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE,
Lucretius,
De Rerum Natura Book 4.212–213:
- extemplo caelo stellante serena ¶ sidera respondent in aqua radiantia mundi
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid Book 7.209–211:
- hinc illum Corythi Tyrrhena ab sede profectum ¶ aurea nunc solio stellantis regia caeli ¶ accipit et numerum diuorum altaribus auget.
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 5.603–604:
- Īdibus ōra prior stēllantia tollere Taurum
indicat, huic signō fābula nōta subest.- The day before the Ides shows Taurus to lift his starry face; a well-known story is behind this constellation.
(See: Taurus (constellation).)
Gaius Valerius Flaccus,
Argonautica Book 5.622–623:
- citus ad summi stellantia patris ¶ tecta ruit questuque Iovem testatur acerbo
Declension
Third-declension participle.
1When used purely as an adjective.