strata

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See also: stratą and stratã

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstɹeɪtə/, /ˈstɹætə/, /ˈstɹɑːtə/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪtə, -ætə, -ɑːtə

Etymology 1

Noun

strata

  1. plural of stratum
Usage notes

Sometimes used incorrectly as singular.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From strata title.

Noun

strata (plural stratas)

  1. (British Columbia) Condominium unit, condominium building, condominium title.
    Learn more about the renting in stratas; some stratas may have rental restriction bylaws. There are also legal requirements for buying and selling strata properties.

Etymology 3

The bread is layered with the filling to produce strata (layers).

Noun

strata (plural stratas)

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  1. (US, cooking) A kind of layered casserole dish in American cuisine.
    • 2014, Slow Cooking for Two (Mendocino Press)
      Egg dishes, stratas, and casserole recipes are delicious for breakfast and work well in the slow cooker.
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Indonesian

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Etymology

From Dutch strata, from Latin strata. Doublet of setrat and stratum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: stra‧ta

Noun

strata (first-person possessive strataku, second-person possessive stratamu, third-person possessive stratanya)

  1. stratum,
    1. one of several parallel horizontal layers of material arranged one on top of another.
      Synonyms: lapisan, stratum
    2. a class of society composed of people with similar social, cultural, or economic status.
  2. higher education educational level

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Interlingua

Noun

strata (plural stratas)

  1. road

Kashubian

Etymology

Deverbal from stracëc. Compare Polish strata.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstrata/
  • Syllabification: stra‧ta

Noun

strata f

  1. loss (result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement)
  2. (finance) loss (sum an entity loses on balance)
  3. loss (something that has been destroyed or ruined)

Declension

Declension of strata
singular plural
nominative strata stratë
genitive stratë strat/stratów
dative strace stratóm
accusative stratã stratë
instrumental stratą stratama
locative strace stratach
vocative strata/strato stratë

Further reading

  • Stefan Ramułt (1893) “strata”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego‎ (in Kashubian), page 204
  • Bernard Sychta (1967-1973) “strata”, in Słownik gwar kaszubskich, volume 5, page 174
  • Jan Trepczyk (1994) “strata”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1-2
  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “strata”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎
  • “strata”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Latin

Etymology 1

An ellipsis of via strāta (“covered, stretched path”). Latter element from strātus, perfect passive participle of sternō (“spread out, extend”).

Pronunciation

Noun

strāta f (genitive strātae); first declension

  1. a paved road
Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative strāta strātae
Genitive strātae strātārum
Dative strātae strātīs
Accusative strātam strātās
Ablative strātā strātīs
Vocative strāta strātae
Descendants

Etymology 2

Participle

strāta

  1. inflection of strātus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

strātā

  1. ablative feminine singular of strātus

Etymology 3

Inflected form of strātum (“coverlet, blanket”).

Noun

strāta

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of strātum

References

  • “strata”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • strata 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)
  • strata in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) a street, a made road: via strata
    • (ambiguous) all have perished by the sword: omnia strata sunt ferro
  • strata in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from English strata.

Noun

strata (plural strata-strata, informal 1st possessive strataku, 2nd possessive stratamu, 3rd possessive stratanya)

  1. stratum:
    1. one of several parallel horizontal layers of material arranged one on top of another.
    2. a class of society composed of people with similar social, cultural, or economic status.
  2. stratum: condominium unit, condominium building, condominium title

Further reading

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *strātu, from Latin strāta.

Noun

strāta f

  1. street, paved road

Descendants

Further reading

  • “strāta”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old Polish

Etymology

Deverbal from stracić. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /strata/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /strata/

Noun

strata f

  1. doom; destruction
    • 1939 [end of the 14th century], Ryszard Ganszyniec, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Kubica, Ludwik Bernacki, editors, Psałterz florjański łacińsko-polsko-niemiecki [Latin-Polish-German Florian Psalter]‎, Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, z zasiłkiem Sejmu Śląskiego [The Ossoliński National Institute: with the benefit of the Silesian Parliament], pages 102, 4:
      Genz wyplaczuge ze ztraty (redimit de interitu) ziwot twoy
      [Jenż wypłacuje ze straty (redimit de interitu) żywot twój]

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References

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *strātu, from Latin strāta.

Noun

strāta f

  1. street, paved road

Declension

Declension of strāta (feminine a-stem)
singular plural
nominative strāta strāta
accusative strāta strāta
genitive strātō strātanō
dative strātu strātum
instrumental — —


Descendants

Polish

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Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish strata. By surface analysis, deverbal from stracić. Compare Kashubian strata.

Pronunciation

Noun

strata f

  1. loss (result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement)
    Antonym: zysk
  2. loss (death or separation of a person)
  3. loss (total damage suffered by a military unit during military operations)
  4. loss (result of unwanted reduction in amount of a material, heat, etc.)
  5. loss (unwanted reduction of a specific type of value, e.g. points, by which the result of a sports game is measured)
  6. loss (result of inadequately using something, especially pointlessly, e.g. of time)
  7. (finance) loss (sum an entity loses on balance)
  8. (obsolete) loss (destruction, collapse, ruin)

Declension

Declension of strata
singular plural
nominative strata straty
genitive straty strat
dative stracie stratom
accusative stratę straty
instrumental stratą stratami
locative stracie stratach
vocative strato straty

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nouns
proverbs
verbs

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), strata is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 13 times in scientific texts, 30 times in news, 13 times in essays, 5 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 64 times, making it the 1031st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “strata”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 564

Further reading

  • strata in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • strata in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “strata”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • “STRATA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], (Can we date this quote?)
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “strata”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “strata”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “strata”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎ (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 446

Sicilian

Etymology

From Late Latin strāta (“paved road”), from Latin strāta, feminine of strātus, perfect passive participle of sternō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʂɽata/, /ˈʂata/

Noun

strata f (plural strati)

  1. road, way, street

Silesian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish strata. By surface analysis, deverbal from stracić.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstrata/
  • Rhymes: -ata
  • Syllabification: stra‧ta

Noun

strata f

  1. loss

Further reading

  • strata in silling.org
  • Henryk Jaroszewicz (2022) “strata”, in Zasady pisowni języka śląskiego (in Polish), Siedlce: Wydawnictwo Naukowe IKRBL, page 136
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