stem – English noun declension

English noun forms of stem

Noun: stem
Singularstem
Pluralstems

Sample Sentences

  • Where ye may all that are of noble ſtemm / Approach, and kiſs her ſacred veſtures hemm. [1634, John Milton, “Arcades”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC, page 55:]
  • While I do pray, learn here thy stem / And true descent. [1633, George Herbert, Church Monuments:]
  • This is a stem / Of that victorious stock. [1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:]
  • Wolsey sat at the stem more than twenty years. [1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):]
  • After they are shot up thirty feet in length, they spread a very large top, having no bough nor twig in the trunk or the stem. [1736, Sir Walter Raleigh, The History of the World in Five Books:]
  • He had placed her upon the grass by now, her back resting against the stem of a huge tree. At her question he stepped back where he could the better see her face. [1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 212:]
  • the stem of an apple or a cherry
  • Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them. [2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7:]
  • The praenomen and nomen for the most part consisted of simple stems with the suffix -us or -ius, which correspond to some of the contracted forms in other languages […]. [1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xiv:]
  • She was perfectly, fuckably proportioned everywhere else, both above and below her waist. A pocket-size Venus, with the longest stems he'd ever seen on someone so dang diminutive. [2008, Lori Wilde, Rhonda Nelson, Cara Summers, August Harlequin Blaze:]
  • Waves of ecstasy roll through him as the moustachioed Casanova slides his stem in and out of the spaced-out chick. [2005, Eric Bogosian, Wasted Beauty, page 135:]
  • Stem mastering processes a mix by breaking it down into several manageable pieces—that is, stereo stems. The stem approach allows the mastering engineer the opportunity to make larger or smaller changes to separate mix elements before the final compression and limiting are applied to the complete mix. [2019, Karl Pedersen, Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard, The Recording, Mixing, and Mastering Reference Handbook, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 268:]
  • from stem to stern
  • Both we will walke vpon the loftie cliffes,
  • And Chriſtian Merchants that with Ruſſian ſtems
  • Plow vp huge furrowes in the Caſpian ſea,
  • Shall vaile to vs, as Lords of al the Lake. [c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
4. Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂mn̥
5. Proto-Indo-European *-is
6. Proto-Indo-European *sth₂mnís
7. Proto-Germanic *stamniz
8. Proto-West Germanic *stamni
9. Old English stemn
10. Middle English stemme
11. English stem
12. From Middle English stem, stemme, stempne, stevin, from Old English stemn (“stem”), from Proto-West Germanic *stamni, from Proto-Germanic *stamniz (“stem, tree stalk”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand, stay”).
13. Cognates
14. Cognate with Dutch stam (“stem”), German Stamm (“stem”), Danish and Norwegian stamme (“stem”), Danish stavn, stævn (“stem of a boat”), Faroese stavnur (“stem of a boat”), stovnur (“institution, public body, foundation, basis”), Icelandic stafn (“stem of a boat”), stofn (“trunk, stock, livestock, stem”), Norn stomna, stimna (“strength, ability”), Swedish stäm (“tree trunk, stem”), stäv (“stem of a boat”), stomme (“frame, structure”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐍉𐌼𐌰 (stōma, “substantial grounds, just cause”), Asturian estame (“stamen”), Aragonese estambre (“stamen”), Catalan estam (“stamen”), French étaim (“yarn”), Galician estame (“stamen, yarn”), Italian stame (“stamen”), Portuguese estame (“stem, yarn”), Spanish Spanish estambre (“stamen, a type of yarn”), Latin stāmen (“warp of a loom, thread hanging from a distaff”), Ancient Greek στῆμα (stêma, “stamen of a flower”), στάμνος (stámnos, “earthen jar, bottle for racking off wine”), Albanian shtamë (“pot, jar, pitcher, jug”), Sanskrit स्थामन् (sthā́man, “place, strength”). Doublet of stamen.
15. Not related to English stoma, which is a Greek loan inherited through New Latin. See: Old English Nouns 'stemn', Dutch Nouns 'stam', German Nouns 'Stamm', Danish Nouns 'stavn', Faroese Nouns 'stavnur', Icelandic Nouns 'stafn', Gothic Nouns '𐍃𐍄𐍉𐌼𐌰', Asturian Nouns 'estame', Catalan Nouns 'estam', Galician Nouns 'estame', Italian Nouns 'stame', Portuguese Nouns 'estame', Spanish Nouns 'estambre', Latin Nouns 'stāmen'.

Verbs referencing "stem"

German Nouns Stamm.