(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /sterˈt͡ʃej.a/, [st̪erˈt͡ʃɛjä] stercēia f (genitive stercēiae); first declension a maidservant who cleans the excrement...
(“snore”) + -ēius (nomen-gentilicium-forming suffix) in Petronius. Compare to stercēia. (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /sterˈteːi̯.a/, [s̠t̪ɛrˈt̪eːi̯ä] (modern Italianate...
as sterteia (“one who snores”) from stertō (“snore”) by Petronius and sterceia (“a maidservant who cleans the excrement of children”) from stercus (“dung...