stans

stans

1. plural of stan

stans

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of stan

• Nasts, Sants, Tsans, snast

Present active participle of stō (“stand”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈstãːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈst̪ans]
• Rhymes: -aːs

stāns (genitive stantis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. standing
2. staying, remaining

Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.

• stantia

• Portuguese: estante
• Spanish: estante
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *stantia
  • Catalan: estància
  • Italian: stanza
    • → Old French: estance
      • → Middle English: staunce
        • English: stance
    • → English: stanza
    • → German: Stanze
      • → Polish: sztanca
      • → Swedish: stans
  • Romansch: stànza, staunza

• "stans", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

stans

1. imperative of stanse

From stad (“place”).

stans

1. (usually in compounds) where, place (specifying a (possible) location)

   någonstans

   somewhere

   ingenstans

   nowhere

   annanstans

   elsewhere

   varstans

   here and there

Borrowed from German Stanze.

stans c

1. a punch (tool for punching or cutting holes in sheet metal, cardboard, or the like)
   1. a punching machine

      Synonym: stansmaskin

• stansa
• stansning

• hålslag (“hole punch”)
• stamp

Borrowed from Italian stanza.

stans c

1. (poetry) ottava rima
2. a stanza of ottava rima

• stans in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• stans in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• stans in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)