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Italian
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈstel.lo/
- Rhymes: -ello
- Hyphenation: stél‧lo
Verb
stello
- first-person singular present indicative of stellare (“to adorn with stars”)
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈstɛl.lo/
- Rhymes: -ɛllo
- Hyphenation: stèl‧lo
Verb
stello
- first-person singular present indicative of stellare (“to shape (the ribs of a ship's hull)”)
Latin
Etymology
stēlla (“star”) + -ō (1st-conjugation verbal suffix)
Pronunciation
Verb
stēllō (present infinitive stēllāre, perfect active stēllāvī, supine stēllātum); first conjugation
- (intransitive) To be set or covered with stars
- (transitive) To set or cover with stars
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “stello”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- stello in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.