stiria

From Latin stīria (“icicle”).

stiria (plural stiriae)

1. An icicle-shaped concretion.
   • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section I:

     the Microscope can afford us hundreds of Instances of Points many thousand times sharper: such as […] the ends of the stiriæ or small parallelipipeds of Amianthus […].

• Istria

Unknown. Suggested to be from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“stiff”). If so, possibly cognate with sterilis, strēnuus. See also Old English steorfan (“to die”), Latin torpeō, Lithuanian tirpstu (“to become rigid”), Old Church Slavonic трупети (trupeti).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈstiː.ri.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈst̪iː.ri.a]

stīria f (genitive stīriae); first declension

1. icicle, ice drop

First-declension noun.

• stilla

• ⇒ Sicilian: stizza (via an unattested Vulgar Latin intermediate form)
• → English: stiria

• “stiria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “stiria”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “stiria”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “stiria”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly