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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin stratus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?e?t?s/, /?st?æt?s/
• Rhymes: -e?t?s
• Hyphenation: stra?tus

Noun

stratus (usually uncountable, plural strati)

1. (meteorology) A principal, low-level cloud type in the form of a gray layer with a rather uniform base, usually not associated with precipitation, and capable of producing corona phenomena and a weak, uniform luminance; abbreviated St.

Translations

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin stratus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?str?tus/, [?s?t?r?t?us?]
• Rhymes: -?tus
• Syllabification: stra?tus

Noun

stratus

1. Synonym of sumupilvi (“stratus (cloud)”)

Declension

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of stern? (“spread out”). Diachronically, from Proto-Italic *str?tos, from Proto-Indo-European *str?h?tós. Cognate with Proto-Celtic *stratos (“valley”), ealier *“spread-out land”, Ancient Greek ??????? (str?tós, “bestrewn, spread, laid out; smooth”), ??????? (stratós, “army, war band”), and Sanskrit ????? (st?tá, “bestrewn, spread (out); extended, spacious; covered; overthrown”).

Pronunciation

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

Participle

str?tus (feminine str?ta, neuter str?tum); first/second-declension participle

1. spread, stretched out, spread out, having been spread out
2. (rare) calmed, stilled, moderated, having been calmed
3. covered, spread with, scattered with, bestrewn with, having been covered (with)
   1. (of a road, path) paved, covered, having been paved
4. stretched on the ground, cast down, struck down, prostrated, having been struck down
   1. (by extension) knocked to the ground, demolished, razed, levelled, flattened, having been razed

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Noun

str?tus m (genitive str?t?s); fourth declension

1. the act of spreading, strewing
2. a bed-covering, coverlet, quilt, blanket
3. vocative singular of str?tus

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (bed-covering): str?tum

Descendants

Noun

str?t?s

1. nominative plural of str?tus
2. genitive singular of str?tus
3. accusative plural of str?tus
4. vocative plural of str?tus

References

• stratus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• stratus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• stratus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• stratus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• stratus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• stratus in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Romanian

Etymology

From French stratus, from Latin stratus.

Noun

stratus m (uncountable)

1. stratus

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?e?t?/, /?st?æt?/, /?st???t?/
• Rhymes: -e?t?, -æt?, -??t?

Etymology 1

Noun

strata

1. plural of stratum

Usage notes

Sometimes used incorrectly as singular.

Derived terms

• stratabound

Etymology 2

From strata title

Noun

strata (plural stratas)

1. (British Columbia) condominium unit, condominium building, condominium title

Etymology 3

Noun

strata (plural stratas)

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.

Alternative forms

• stratta

See also

• Strata Florida

Anagrams

• Attars, Sattar, Tatars, Tatras, astart, attars

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?strata]
• 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

Affixed terms

Compounds

Related terms

Further reading

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

Interlingua

Noun

strata (plural stratas)

1. road

Latin

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

str?ta f (genitive str?tae); first declension

1. a paved road

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Italian: strada
• Neapolitan:

  Tarantino: strade

  Neapolitan: strata

• Old Occitan: [Term?]
  • Catalan: estrada
  • Occitan: estrada, estraia, estraa, straa
• Old Portuguese: estrada, strada
  • Galician: estrada
  • Portuguese: estrada
    • Guinea-Bissau Creole: strada
    • Kabuverdianu: stráda
• Old Spanish: [Term?]
  • Spanish: estrada
    • ? Basque: estrata
• Piedmontese: stra
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: strade
  • Romansch: strada
• Sicilian: strata
• Venetian: strada
• ? Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ?????? (?es??r??)

  • ? Arabic: ??????? (?ir??), ??????? (sir??)
• ? Middle Persian: [script needed] (sl?t' /sr?t/, “way; street”)
• ? West Germanic: *str?tu (see there for further descendants)
• ? Greek: ?????? (stráta)
  • ? Romanian: strad?

Etymology 2

Participle

str?ta

1. inflection of str?tus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

str?t?

1. ablative feminine singular of str?tus

Etymology 3

Inflected form of str?tum (“coverlet, blanket”).

Noun

str?ta

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of str?tum

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, 1883–1887)
• strata in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• strata in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *str?tu, from Latin str?ta.

Noun

str?ta f

1. street, paved road

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: strâte
  • Dutch: straat (see there for further descendants)
  • Limburgish: sjtraot, straot

Further reading

• “str?ta”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *str?tu, from Latin str?ta.

Noun

str?ta f

1. street, paved road

Declension

Descendants

• Middle Low German: strâte
  • German Low German: Straat, Stroot

Polish

Etymology

Deverbal of straci?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?stra.ta/

Noun

strata f

1. loss

Declension

Related terms

• straci? — verb to lose, to miss

Further reading

• strata in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• strata in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Sicilian

Etymology

From Late Latin str?ta (“paved road”), from Latin [via] str?ta, feminine of str?tus, perfect passive participle of stern?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???ata/, /??ata/

Noun

strata f (plural strati)

1. road, way, street