stellans

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsteːl.lãːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈst̪ɛl.lans]

stēllāns (genitive stēllantis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. (poetic) bestarred, starry
   • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De Rerum Natura Book 4.212–213:

     extemplo caelo stellante serena ¶ sidera respondent in aqua radiantia mundi

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   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid Book 7.209–211:

     hinc illum Corythi Tyrrhena ab sede profectum ¶ aurea nunc solio stellantis regia caeli ¶ accipit et numerum diuorum altaribus auget.

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   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.603–604:

     Īdibus ōra prior stēllantia tollere Taurum
     indicat, huic signō fābula nōta subest.

     The day before the Ides shows Taurus to lift his starry face; a well-known story is behind this constellation.
     (See: Taurus (constellation).)

   • Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica Book 5.622–623:

     citus ad summi stellantia patris ¶ tecta ruit questuque Iovem testatur acerbo

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Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.