Italian

Noun

stiva f ‎(plural stive)

1. (nautical) hold (of a ship)

Verb

stiva

1. third-person singular present indicative of stivare
2. second-person singular imperative of stivare

Anagrams

• stavi, svita, vasti, vista

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European*steh₂-. See also Latin sistō and stō.

Noun

stīva f ‎(genitive stīvae); first declension

1. handle of the plough

Inflection

First declension.

Derived terms

• stīvārius

References

• stiva in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• stiva in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• STIVA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “stiva”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• stiva in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers