stiva

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See also: stīva and stīvā

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsti.va/
  • Rhymes: -iva
  • Hyphenation: stì‧va

Etymology 1

Noun

stiva f (plural stive)

  1. (nautical, aviation) hold (of a ship or aircraft)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

stiva

  1. inflection of stivare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain; perhaps connected with Latin stilus (“a pointed instrument”) and containing the root *sti- (“sharp object”) also contained in Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp, to sting”), whence Latin stinguō, Hittite (tekan, “hoe”), English stick. Another possible connection is Avestan staēra-, taēra- m (“mountaintop”).

Noun

stīva f (genitive stīvae); first declension

  1. handle of the plough

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative stīva stīvae
Genitive stīvae stīvārum
Dative stīvae stīvīs
Accusative stīvam stīvās
Ablative stīvā stīvīs
Vocative stīva stīvae

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Portuguese: esteva
  • Spanish: esteva

References

  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “stilus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 587

Further reading

  • “stiva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “stiva”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • stiva in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • stiva in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “stiva”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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