stiria

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English

Etymology

From Latin stīria (“icicle”).

Noun

stiria (plural stiriae)

  1. An icicle-shaped concretion.
    • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section I:
      the Microscope can afford us hundreds of Instances of Points many thousand times sharper: such as […] the ends of the stiriæ or small parallelipipeds of Amianthus […].

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“stiff”). Cognate with Latin stultus, stolidus, sterilis, strēnuus. See also Old English steorfan (“to die”), Latin torpeō, Lithuanian tirpstu (“to become rigid”), Old Church Slavonic трупети (trupeti).

Pronunciation

Noun

stīria f (genitive stīriae); first declension

  1. icicle, ice drop

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative stīria stīriae
genitive stīriae stīriārum
dative stīriae stīriīs
accusative stīriam stīriās
ablative stīriā stīriīs
vocative stīria stīriae

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → English: stiria
  • Sicilian: stizza (via an unattested Vulgar Latin intermediate form)

References

  • “stiria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “stiria”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “stiria”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
  • “stiria”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
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