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stern
English
Alternative forms
- sterne (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: stûrn, IPA(key): /st?n/
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: stûn, IPA(key): /st??n/
- Rhymes: -??(?)n
Etymology 1
From Middle English stern, sterne, sturne, from Old English styrne (“stern, grave, strict, austere, hard, severe, cruel”), from Proto-Germanic *sturnijaz (“angry, astonished, shocked”), from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“rigid, stiff”). Cognate with Scots stern (“bold, courageous, fierce, resolute”), Old High German storn?n (“to be astonished”), Dutch stuurs (“glum, austere”), Swedish stursk (“insolent”).
Adjective
stern (comparative sterner, superlative sternest)
- Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
- stern as tutors, and as uncles hard
- Grim and forbidding in appearance.
- 1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion
- these barren rocks, your stern inheritance
- 1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion
Translations
Etymology 2
Most likely from Old Norse stjórn (“control, steering”), related to stýra (“to steer”), from Proto-Germanic *stiurijan?, whence also English steer. Also possibly from Old Frisian stiarne (“rudder”), from the same Germanic root.
Noun
stern (plural sterns)
- (nautical) The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel.
- (figuratively) The post of management or direction.
- The hinder part of anything.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
- The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.
Synonyms
- (of a ship): poop
Antonyms
- bow
Derived terms
- from stem to stern
- sternpost
Translations
See also
- keel
- aft
Etymology 3
From a variant of tern.
Noun
stern (plural sterns)
- A bird, the black tern.
Translations
Anagrams
- 'rents, Ernst, Snert, nerts, rents, snert, terns
Dutch
Etymology
Possibly cognate with Latin sturnus (“starling”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?r/
- Rhymes: -?r
Noun
stern m (plural sterns or sternen, diminutive sterntje n)
- tern
Middle English
Noun
stern
- Alternative form of sterne
Mòcheno
Etymology
From Middle High German stërne, stërre, stërn, from Old High German sterno, from Proto-Germanic *stern?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?st?r (“star”). Cognate with German Stern, English star.
Noun
stern m
- star
References
- Anthony R. Rowley, Liacht as de sproch: Grammatica della lingua mòchena Deutsch-Fersentalerisch, TEMI, 2003.
Piedmontese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?r?/
Noun
stern m
- breastbone
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implacable
English
Etymology
From Middle English impl?c?ble (“immitigable, unappeasable”) from Old French implacable (“harsh, unrelenting; implacable”) (modern French implacable), from Latin impl?c?bilis (“unappeasable, implacable; irreconcilable”), from im- (variant of in- (prefix meaning ‘not’)) + pl?c?bilis (“placable; appeasing, moderating, pacifying, propitiating; acceptable”) (from pl?c? (“to assuage, pacify, placate; to appease; to reconcile”) + -bilis (suffix forming adjectives indicating a capacity or worth of being acted upon)).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m?plæk?b(?)l/, /-?ple?-/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?m?plæk?b?l/
- Hyphenation: im?pla?ca?ble
Adjective
implacable (comparative more implacable, superlative most implacable)
- Not able to be placated or appeased.
- Synonyms: (obsolete) impacable, irreconcilable, unassuageable, (obsolete) unplacable, unpleasable
- Antonyms: appeasable, assuageable, pacable, pacifiable, placable
- Impossible to prevent or stop; inexorable, unrelenting, unstoppable.
- Synonyms: relentless, unremitting, unyielding
- Adamant; immovable.
Derived terms
- implacability
- implacableness
- implacably
Related terms
Translations
References
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin impl?c?bilis.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /im.pl??ka.bl?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /im.pla?ka.ble/
Adjective
implacable (masculine and feminine plural implacables)
- implacable (not able to be placated or appeased)
Derived terms
- implacablement
Related terms
- implacabilitat
Further reading
- “implacable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Etymology
From Latin impl?c?bilis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.pla.kabl/
Adjective
implacable (plural implacables)
- implacable, harsh, unrelenting
Derived terms
- implacabilité
- implacablement
Further reading
- “implacable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin impl?c?bilis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /impla?kable/, [?m.pla?ka.??le]
- Hyphenation: im?pla?ca?ble
Adjective
implacable (plural implacables)
- implacable, harsh, unrelenting
Derived terms
- implacablemente
Related terms
- aplacar
- implacabilidad
Further reading
- “implacable” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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