storea

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃-. Cognate with Ancient Greek στόρνυμι (stórnumi, “scatter”), στρατός (stratós, “army, people, body of men”), Swedish strö, Old English strewian (English strew) and Latin sternō, strāmen and torus.

Pronunciation

Noun

storea f (genitive storeae); first declension

  1. mat (of rush or straw)
    Synonyms: teges, matta

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative storea storeae
genitive storeae storeārum
dative storeae storeīs
accusative stoream storeās
ablative storeā storeīs
vocative storea storeae

Descendants

  • Catalan: estora
  • Emilian: stora
  • Italian: stuoia
  • Piedmontese: steuja
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: esteira
  • Old Spanish: estuera

References

  • “storea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “storea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • storea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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