stea
Romanian
Alternative forms
- steauă — popular
Etymology
With apocope from colloquial steauă, from archaic steală, from Latin stēlla, from Proto-Italic *stērolā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr. Doublet of aster and star.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ste̯a/
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- Hyphenation: stea
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Noun
stea f (plural stele)
Declension
singular | plural | ||||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | stea | steaua | stele | stelele | |
genitive-dative | stele | stelei | stele | stelelor | |
vocative | stea | stelelor |
Derived terms
Related terms
Verb
stea
- third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of sta
References
- “stea”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025
Venetan
Noun
stea f (plural stee)
- obsolete spelling of steła (“star”)