stella – Italian noun declension

Italian noun forms of stella

Noun: stella
Gender: f Hyphenation: stél‧la
Singular fstella
Plural fstelle

Sample Sentences

  • Lauꝺato ſi miſignore ꝑ ſora luna ele ſtelle. in celu lai foꝛmate clarite ⁊ p̄tioſe ⁊ belle. (Praised be you, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in heaven you have made them clear and precious and beautiful.) [c. 1226, Francis of Assisi, Cantico delle creature [Canticle of the Creatures]; copied, (manuscript), c. mid 13ᵗʰ century, page 2:]
  • salimmo sù, el primo e io secondo,
  • tanto ch’i’ vidi de le cose belle
  • che porta ’l ciel, per un pertugio tondo.
  • E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle. (We climbed up, he first and I second, until I saw the beautiful things that are in the sky through a round hole; then we got out to see the stars again.) [1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXXIV”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 136–139; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:]
  • E come il sol par l’altre stelle cuopra,
  • cosí questo splendor lucente e chiaro
  • ombra l’inferior, ch’è piú degna opra. (And just as the sun seems to cover the other stars, so this shining, clear splendour shadows the lesser, being a more worthy task.) [1473, Lorenzo de' Medici, Altercazione [Altercation]^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Opere_(Lorenzo_de%27_Medici)/X._Altercazione), lines 139–141; republished as “De’ beni naturali, cioè corporali” (chapter 3), Altercazione, in Attilio Simioni, compiler, Lorenzo de’ Medici il Magnifico - Opere^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Opere_(Lorenzo_de%27_Medici)), volume 2, Bari: Laterza, 1913, page 51:]
  • caelō ceu saepe refīxa
  • trānscurrunt crīnemque volantia sīdera dūcunt (Thus a night star, ripped from the sky, falls, and passes leaving after itself a long, shiny tail.) [mid 1560s [29–19 BCE], “Libro quinto”, in Annibale Caro, transl., Eneide, translation of Aeneis by Publius Vergilius Maro (in Classical Latin), lines 746–748; republished as L’Eneide di Virgilio^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Eneide_(Caro)), Florence: G. Barbera, 1892:]
  • […] Il debil raggio
  • De le stelle remote, e de’ pianeti,
  • Che nel silenzio camminando vanno
  • Rompea gli orrori tuoi sol quanto è duopo
  • A sentirli vie più. […] (The faint ray of the faraway stars, and of the planets, which travel through the silence, stopped your horrors just as much as is needed to feel them even more.) [1790s, Giuseppe Parini, Notte [Night]; collected in Opere dell’abate Giuseppe Parini, Venice: Giacomo Storti, 1803, page 167:]
  • […] ἡ δ’ ἀστὴρ ὣς ἀπέλαμπεν
  • ἵππουρις τρυφάλεια […] ([…] The great helmet, fitted with horsehair, looked like a star on the forehead, […]) [1810 [c. 8ᵗʰ century BCE], “Libro XIX”, in Vincenzo Monti, transl., Iliade, translation of Ῑ̓λιάς (Īliás, Iliad) by Homer (in Epic Greek), lines 380–382; republished as Iliade di Omero^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Iliade_(Monti)), 4ᵗʰ edition, Milan: Società tipografica dei classici italiani, 1825:]
  • Il che vuol dire, in fondo, che noi anche oggi crediamo che la luna non stia per altro nel cielo, che per farci lume di notte, come il sole di giorno, e le stelle per offrirci un magnifico spettacolo. (Which—all things considered—means that we, to this day, believe that the moon is only in the sky to make light for us at night, like the sun during the day, and the stars to offer us an amazing spectacle.) [1904, Luigi Pirandello, “Premessa seconda (filosofica) a mo' di scusa [Second (philosophical) introduction, as an apology]” (chapter 2), in Il fu Mattia Pascal [The Late Mattia Pascal]; new revised edition, Milan: Fratelli Treves Editori, 1919, page 8:]

Etymology

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

Verbs referencing "stella"

English Nouns star, Portuguese Nouns estrela.

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