stroma
English
Etymology
From Latin strōma (“mattress, bed covering”), from Ancient Greek στρῶμα (strôma, “bed”),[1] from στόρνυμι (stórnumi, “to stretch out”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: strō′mə[1]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈstɹəʊ̯.mə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈstɹoʊ̯.mə/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈstɹəʉ̯.mə/
- (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈstɹɐʉ̯.mə/
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /ˈstɹo.mə/
- (India) IPA(key): /ˈsʈɾoː.ma/
- Rhymes: -əʊmə
- Hyphenation: stro‧ma[1]
Noun
stroma (plural stromata)
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
the tissue structure of an organ
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “stroma”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
Further reading
- “stroma”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
Albanian
Pronunciation
Noun
stroma
- inflection of stromë:
- definite nominative singular
- indefinite nominative/accusative plural
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stʁɔ.ma/
- Hyphenation: stro‧ma
Noun
stroma m (plural stromas)
Further reading
- “stroma”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈstrɔ.ma/
- Rhymes: -ɔma
- Hyphenation: strò‧ma
Noun
stroma m (plural stromi)
Related terms
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek στρῶμᾰ (strômă, “bed”), from στόρνῡμι (stórnūmi, “to stretch out”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈstroː.ma]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈst̪rɔː.ma]
- Hyphenation: strō‧ma
Noun
strōma n (genitive strōmatis); third declension
- blanket; bedcover; coverlet
- (figurative, in the plural) miscellaneous texts (covering a variety of subjects)
- stroma
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | strōma | strōmata |
genitive | strōmatis | strōmatum |
dative | strōmatī | strōmatibus |
accusative | strōma | strōmata |
ablative | strōmate | strōmatibus |
vocative | strōma | strōmata |
Further reading
- “stroma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- stroma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈstrɔ.ma/
- Rhymes: -ɔma
- Syllabification: stro‧ma
Adjective
stroma
- feminine nominative/vocative singular of stromy