English

Proper noun

Stella

1. A female given name.
   • 1933 Eleanor Farjeon, Over the Garden Wall,Faber and Faber 1933, page 91 ("Girls' Names")

     What lovely names for girls there are! / There's Stella like the Evening Star,

2. Stella Artois, a brand of beer; or a serving of such.

   I'm going to have a few Stellas tonight

   • 2006 Jamie Treays: Sheila (a song) :

     Sheila goes out with her mate Stella / It gets poured all over her fella

3. A town in South Africa.
4. A village in Missouri.
5. A village in Nebraska.
6. A town in Wisconsin.
7. (US, numismatics) A gold coin with a face value of $4.00 proposed for use in the United States in the 19th century.

Related terms

• Stella Maris

Translations

Anagrams

• all set
• sallet

Danish

Etymology

From Latin stella

Proper noun

Stella

1. A female given name.

Faroese

Proper noun

Stella f

1. A female given name

Usage notes

Matronymics

• son of Stella: Stelluson
• daughter of Stella: Stelludóttir

Declension

German

Etymology

From Latin stella

Proper noun

Stella

1. A female given name.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin stella.

Proper noun

Stella

1. A female given name.
2. A commune in Liguria.
3. A river that flows in Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin stella. First recorded as a Swedish name in 1857.

Proper noun

Stella

1. A female given name.

English

Noun

stella ‎(plural stellae)

1. (botany) A star-shaped structure.
   • 1939 June, Reed C. Rollins, “Studies in the Genus Lesquerella”, in American Journal of Botany, volume 26:

     Plants of this collection are several decimeters taller; the pedicels are more remote in the inforescence; the stellae are larger and form a less dense cover on plant parts, and the siliques are slightly larger than in the usual form of the species.

   • 1997 July, Maria de Fátima Agra & Michael Nee, “A new species of Solanum subgenus Leptostemonum (Solanaceae) from northeastern Brazil”, in Brittonia, volume 49:

     Stems and young branches terete, viscid, densely ferruginous-tomentose with sessile to short-stalked pauciradiate stellae bearing greatly prolonged 4-6-celled midpoints, these 0.1-0.2 cm long, gland-tipped, strongly armed with ferruginous laterally compressed prickles, these broad-based and sparsely glandular in the basal quarter.

   • 2008 December, Fang Chen & XiPing Dong, “The internal structure of Early Cambrian fossil embryo Olivooides revealed in the light of synchrotron X-ray tomographic microscopy”, in Chinese Science Bulletin, volume 53:

     The morphological and statistic analyses are also given to the stellae structure of Olivooides and Punctatus, which indicates that this structure is a result of adaptive evolu- tion to a lifestyle of fast-attaching after hatching, probably with the function of mucilage secretion.

Interlingua

Etymology

From Latin stella, from Proto-Italic *stērolā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

Noun

stella ‎(plural stellas)

1. star

Italian

Etymology

From Latin stēlla, from Proto-Italic *stērolā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstel.la/, [ˈs̪t̪el̺.l̺a]
• Hyphenation: stél‧la

Noun

stella f ‎(plural stelle)

1. a star

Related terms

• stella alpina
• stella binaria
• stella filante
• stellante
• stellare
• stelletta
• stellina
• stellone
• stelloncino

Anagrams

• stalle

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *stērolā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsteːl.la/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈstel.la/

Noun

stēlla f ‎(genitive stēllae); first declension

1. star
2. planet

Inflection

First declension.

Synonyms

• astrum

Derived terms

• stēllāris
• stēllifer
• stēlliger
• stēlliō

Related terms

• stēllāre

Descendants

References

• stella in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• stella in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• STELLA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “stella”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the regular courses of the stars: motus stellarum constantes et rati
    
  • the planets: stellae errantes, vagae
    
  • the fixed stars: stellae inerrantes (N. D. 2. 21. 54)
    

Old Provençal

Etymology

From Latin stella, from Proto-Italic *stērolā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

Noun

stella f ‎(oblique plural stellas, nominative singular stella, nominative plural stellas)

1. star

Descendants

• Catalan: estel, estela
• Occitan: estela, estiala

Tarantino

Etymology

From Latin stella, from Proto-Italic *stērolā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

Noun

stella

1. star