stroma

See also: Stroma and stromą

English

Etymology

From Latin strōma (mattress, bed covering), from Ancient Greek στρῶμα (strôma, bed),[1] from στόρνυμι (stórnumi, to stretch out).

Pronunciation

Noun

stroma (plural stromata)

  1. (anatomy) The tissue structure of an organ, etc., that serves to support it.
    Antonym: parenchyma

Derived terms

Translations

See also

References

  1. 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

  1. inflection of stromë:
    1. definite nominative singular
    2. indefinite nominative/accusative plural

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stʁɔ.ma/
  • Hyphenation: stro‧ma

Noun

stroma m (plural stromas)

  1. stroma

Further reading

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstrɔ.ma/
  • Rhymes: -ɔma
  • Hyphenation: strò‧ma

Noun

stroma m (plural stromi)

  1. stroma

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek στρῶμᾰ (strômă, bed), from στόρνῡμι (stórnūmi, to stretch out).

Pronunciation

Noun

strōma n (genitive strōmatis); third declension

  1. blanket; bedcover; coverlet
  2. (figurative, in the plural) miscellaneous texts (covering a variety of subjects)
  3. 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

  1. feminine nominative/vocative singular of stromy