(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /sterˈt͡ʃe.ja/, [st̪erˈt͡ʃɛːjä] sterceia f (genitive sterceiae); first declension a maidservant who cleans the excrement...
(“snore”) + -eius (nomen-gentilicium-forming suffix) in Petronius. Compare to sterceia. (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /sterˈtei̯.i̯a/, [s̠t̪ɛrˈt̪ɛi̯ːä] (modern...
as sterteia (“one who snores”) from stertō (“snore”) by Petronius and sterceia (“a maidservant who cleans the excrement of children”) from stercus (“dung...