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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsti.va/
- Rhymes: -iva
- Hyphenation: stì‧va
Etymology 1
Noun
stiva f (plural stive)
- (nautical, aviation) hold (of a ship or aircraft)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
stiva
- inflection of stivare:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Uncertain; perhaps connected with Latin stilus (“a pointed instrument”) and containing the root *stey- (“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 𐬯𐬙𐬀𐬉𐬭𐬀 (staēra), 𐬙𐬀𐬉𐬭𐬀 m (taēra, “mountaintop”).
Noun
stīva f (genitive stīvae); first declension
- handle of the plough
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
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