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6-letter words (2 found)

SALLET,STELLA,

5-letter words (19 found)

LEAST,LEATS,SALET,SALLE,SALTL,SELLA,SETAL,SLATE,STALE,STALL,STEAL,STELA,STELL,TAELS,TALES,TALLS,TEALS,TELLS,TESLA,

4-letter words (38 found)

ALES,ALLS,ALTS,ATES,EAST,EATS,ELLS,ELTS,ETAS,LASE,LAST,LATE,LATS,LEAL,LEAS,LEAT,LEST,LETS,SALE,SALL,SALT,SATE,SEAL,SEAT,SELL,SETA,SLAE,SLAT,TAEL,TAES,TALE,TALL,TASE,TEAL,TEAS,TELA,TELL,TELS,

3-letter words (29 found)

ALE,ALL,ALS,ALT,ATE,ATS,EAS,EAT,ELL,ELS,ELT,EST,ETA,LAS,LAT,LEA,LES,LET,SAE,SAL,SAT,SEA,SEL,SET,TAE,TAS,TEA,TEL,TES,

2-letter words (12 found)

AE,AL,AS,AT,EA,EL,ES,ET,LA,ST,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 101 words from stella according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of stella

stella

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin stēlla (“a star”). Doublet of estoile, étoile, star, and aster.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstɛl.ə/
  • Rhymes: -ɛlə
  • Homophones: Stella, stellar (in non-rhotic accents), steller (in non-rhotic accents), Steller (in non-rhotic accents)
  • Hyphenation: stel‧la

Noun

stella (plural stellae)

  1. (botany) A star-shaped structure.
  2. (US, numismatics) Alternative letter-case form of Stella.

Derived terms

Related terms

References

  • “stella”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

  • all set, sallet

Corsican

Alternative forms

  • stedda, stidda

Etymology

From Latin stella, from Proto-Italic *stērlā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr. Cognates include Italian stella and Romanian stea.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstelːa/

Noun

stella f (plural stelle)

  1. star

References

  • “stella, stedda, stidda” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Interlingua

Etymology

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

Noun

stella (plural stellas)

  1. star

Italian

Etymology 1

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Inherited from Latin stēlla, from Proto-Italic *stērlā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr. Doublet of étoile.

Pronunciation

  • (standard) IPA(key): /ˈstel.la/
    • Rhymes: -ella
    • Hyphenation: stél‧la
  • (Milan) IPA(key): /ˈstɛl.la/

Noun

stella f (plural stelle)

  1. star
  2. (heraldry) star, mullet
Related terms

Further reading

  • stella in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
  • stella in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstel.la/
  • Rhymes: -ella
  • Hyphenation: stél‧la

Verb

stella

  1. inflection of stellare (“to adorn with stars”):
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstɛl.la/
  • Rhymes: -ɛlla
  • Hyphenation: stèl‧la

Verb

stella

  1. inflection of stellare (“to shape (the ribs of a ship's hull)”):
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

  • stalle

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *stērlā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr. Can be considered an assimilated version of *stērla, a diminutive form.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsteːl.la/, [ˈs̠t̪eːlːʲä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈstel.la/, [ˈst̪ɛlːä]

Noun

stēlla f (genitive stēllae); first declension

  1. (literal) a star; (poetic) a constellation
    Synonyms: astēr, astrum, sīdus
    1. a wandering star, a planet
      Synonym: stēlla errāns
    2. a meteor, a shooting star
  2. (transferred sense)
    1. a star shape, a figure of a star
    2. a bright point on a precious stone
    3. a starfish
    4. a glowworm
    5. a pupil of an eye

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • stēllāns
  • stēllāre
  • stēllātūra

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • stella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[10], London: Macmillan and Co.

Lombard

Alternative forms

  • stèlla (Classical Milanese Orthography)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstɛla/

Noun

stella f

  1. star

Further reading

  • The entry "stella" at the Lombard edition of Wiktionary

Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin stēlla.

Noun

stella f (plural stelle)

  1. star

Descendants

  • Tarantino: stella

Old Occitan

Etymology

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

Noun

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

  1. star

Descendants

  • Occitan: estela, estiala
  • Occitan: Estela
    • → French: Estelle

Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin stēlla, from Proto-Italic *stērlā, a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr, derived from the root *h₂eh₁s- (“to burn”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstɛlla/

Noun

stella f (plural stellas)

  1. (Campidanese) star
    Synonyms: steddu, streglia

stella f (plural stelli)

  1. (Gallurese) star
    Synonyms: istella, stedda

Tarantino

Etymology

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

Noun

stella

  1. star

Source: wiktionary.org