different between stratum vs storey

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin str?tum (“a spread for a bed, coverlet, quilt, blanket; a pillow, bolster; a bed”), neuter singular of str?tus, perfect passive participle of stern? (“spread”). Doublet of estrade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st???t?m/, /?st?e?t?m/

Noun

stratum (plural stratums or strata)

1. One of several parallel horizontal layers of material arranged one on top of another.

   Synonym: tier
2. (geology) A layer of sedimentary rock having approximately the same composition throughout.

   Synonyms: bed, layer

   Coordinate term: seam
3. Any of the regions of the atmosphere, such as the stratosphere, that occur as layers.
4. (biology) A layer of tissue.
5. A class of society composed of people with similar social, cultural, or economic status.
6. (ecology) A layer of vegetation, usually of similar height.
7. (computing) The level of accuracy of a computer's clock, relative to others on the network.

Related terms

• stratification
• stratify
• stratosphere

Translations

Further reading

• stratum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• stratum in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• stratum in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?strat?m]
• Hyphenation: stra?tum

Noun

stratum (first-person possessive stratumku, second-person possessive stratummu, third-person possessive stratumnya)

1. (geology) stratum, a layer of sedimentary rock having approximately the same composition throughout.

Related terms

Further reading

• “stratum” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology

From str?tus, perfect passive participle of stern? (“spread”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?stra?.tum/, [?s?(t?)?ä?t????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?stra.tum/, [?st????t?um]

Noun

str?tum n (genitive str?t?); second declension

1. a bed-covering, coverlet, quilt, blanket
2. a pillow, bolster
3. a bed, couch
4. a horse-blanket, saddle-cloth
5. a pavement

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Descendants

Verb

str?tum

1. accusative supine of stern?

References

• stratum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• stratum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• stratum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• stratum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

English

Alternative forms

• story (US)

Etymology

From Middle English story, via Medieval Latin historia (“narrative, illustraton, frieze”) from Ancient Greek ??????? (historí?, “learning through research”), from ??????? (historé?, “to research, inquire (and record)”), from ????? (híst?r, “the knowing, wise one”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”). The current sense arose from narrative friezes on upper levels of medieval buildings, esp. churches.

An alternative etymology derives Middle English story from Old French *estoree (“a thing built, building”), from estoree (“built”), feminine past participle of estorer (“to build”), from Latin instaurare (“to construct, build, erect”), but this seems unlikely since historia already had the meaning "storey of a building" in Anglo-Latin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?st????/, /?st???i/
• Rhymes: -??ri
• Homophone: story

Noun

storey (plural storeys)

1. (obsolete) A building; an edifice.
2. (Britain) A floor or level of a building or ship.

   Synonyms: floor, level, (US) story

   Coordinate term: deck

3. (typography) A vertical level in certain letters, such as a and g.

Usage notes

The terms floor, level, or deck are used in a similar way, except that it is usual to talk of a “14-storey building”, but “the 14th floor”. The floor at ground or street level is called the ground floor in many places. The words storey and floor exclude levels of the building that are not covered by a roof, such as the terrace on the top roof of many buildings.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• storey on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Storey in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• Oyster, Troyes, oyster, oystre, toyers, tyroes