sterno

From Ancient Greek στέρνον (stérnon, “chest, breastbone, heart”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɛr.no/
• Rhymes: -ɛrno
• Hyphenation: stèr‧no

sterno m (plural sterni)

1. (anatomy) breastbone, sternum

• sternale

• nostre

From Proto-Italic *stornō, from Proto-Indo-European *str̥néh₃ti, n-infix present of the root *sterh₃- (“to spread, extend”).^[1] Cognate with Sanskrit आस्तॄ (āstṝ, “spread”), Avestan 𐬯𐬙𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬥𐬁𐬌𐬙𐬌 (stər^ənāⁱti, “spread, extend”), Ancient Greek στόρνυμι (stórnumi, “scatter”), στρατός (stratós, “army, people, body of men”), Old Church Slavonic прострѣти (prostrěti, “stretch, expand”), просторъ (prostorŭ, “spaciousness”), Old English strewian (English strew), Old Norse strá.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈstɛr.noː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈstɛr.no]

sternō (present infinitive sternere, perfect active strāvī, supine strātum); third conjugation

1. (transitive) to spread, stretch out, spread out

   Synonyms: cōnfundō, effundō, fundō, diffundō, dēfundō, differō, indūcō, dissipō

2. (transitive, rare) to calm, still, moderate
3. (transitive) to cover, spread with, scatter with, bestrew with, besprinkle
4. (transitive, of a road, path) to pave, cover
5. (transitive) to stretch on the ground, throw to the ground, cast down, strike down, prostrate

   Synonyms: prōsternō, fundō, prōflīgō, impellō, ruō, subvertō, pervertō, ēvertō, dēturbō, versō, afflīgō

6. to overthrow

   Synonyms: prōflīgō, impellō, subvertō, fundō, pervertō, ēvertō, dēturbō, prōsternō, afflīgō, dissipō, vertō, versō

   • c. 13th C., O Fortuna, lines 34-36:

     Quod per sortem sternit fortem, mecum omnes plangite!

     That which through fate strikes the strong man down, everyone bemoan [it] with me!

7. (transitive, by extension) to knock to the ground, demolish, raze, level, flatten

   Synonyms: assolō, adaequō, aequō, pariō

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita XXIV.38:

     cum toga signum dedero, tum mihi undique clamore sublato turbam inuadite ac sternite omnia ferro;

     when I give the signal with my toga, raise a loud shout and make an attack on the crowd from all sides and cut everything down with the sword

• Franco-Provençal: êterdre
• Old French: esternir (through alternative form *sternire), esterdre (merged with the root extergere)
  • French: éternir (dialectal, Normandy), étarnir (dialectal, Savoie), éterdre (dialectal, Savoie, Jura and Switzerland)
• Friulian: stierni
• Italian: sternere

• “sterno”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sterno”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sterno”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to pave a road: viam sternere (silice, saxo)
    
  • to saddle a horse: sternere equum
    
  • (ambiguous) to prostrate oneself before a person: ad pedes alicuius iacēre, stratum esse (stratum iacēre)
    
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995), New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

• sterro

From Proto-West Germanic *sternō, from Proto-Germanic *sternô, *sternǭ.

sterno m

1. star

• Middle Dutch: sterre, sterne
  • Dutch: ster
    • Afrikaans: ster
    • Negerhollands: ster
    • → Indonesian: seter
  • Limburgish: Schtar, sjtar
  • West Flemish: sterre

• “sterno, sterro”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

• sterro, stern

From Proto-West Germanic *sternō, from Proto-Germanic *sternô, *sternǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr. Compare Old Saxon sterro, Old Frisian stēra, Old English steorra, Old Norse stjarna, Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌽𐍉 (stairnō).

sterno m

1. star

• Middle High German: stërne, stërre, stërn
  • Alemannic German: Stern
  • Bavarian: Stean

    Cimbrian: stèrn

    Mòcheno: stern

  • Central Franconian: Stään, Stär, Stären, Stern

    Hunsrik: Stern

    Luxembourgish: Stär

  • German: Stern
  • Vilamovian: śtaom
  • Yiddish: שטערן (shtern)