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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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puppis
Latin
Etymology
Of uncertain etymology. Pokorny compares Polish pupa (“bottom, rear”) and Ancient Greek ??????? (púmatos, “the last”), from a common Proto-Indo-European *pu (“turned away”) << *h?epó (“away, off”), with some uncertainty. Muss-Arnolt compares Hebrew ???? (b??, “to be hollow”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?pup.pis/, [?p?p??s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?pup.pis/, [?pup?is]
Noun
puppis f (genitive puppis); third declension
- stern, poop of a ship
- (by extension) a ship
- (figuratively) backside of a person
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im or occasionally -em, ablative singular in -? or -e).
Synonyms
- (ship): n?vis
Descendants
References
- puppis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- puppis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- puppis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- puppis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- puppis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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