stiria

See also: Stiria

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 […].

Anagrams

• Istria

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈstiː.ri.a/, [ˈs̠t̪iːriä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsti.ri.a/, [ˈst̪iːriä]

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

• stilla

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