# sterno
## Italian
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek στέρνον (stérnon, “chest, breastbone, heart”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈstɛr.no/
* Rhymes: -ɛrno
* Hyphenation: stèr‧no

### Noun

sterno m (plural sterni)
* (anatomy) breastbone, sternum

#### Derived terms

* sternale

### Anagrams

* nostre

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *stornō, from Proto-Indo-European *str̥-n-h₃-, n-infix present of the root *sterh₃- (“to spread, extend”). Cognate with Sanskrit आस्तॄ (āstṝ, “spread”), Avestan 𐬯𐬙𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬥𐬁𐬌𐬙𐬌 (stər$^ə$nā$^i$ti, “spread, extend”), Ancient Greek στόρνυμι (stórnumi, “scatter”), στρατός (stratós, “army, people, body of men”), Old Church Slavonic прострѣти (prostrěti, “stretch, expand”), просторъ (prostorŭ, “spaciousness”), Old English strewian (English strew), Old Norse strá.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈster.noː/, [ˈs̠t̪ɛrnoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈster.no/, [ˈst̪ɛrno]

### Verb

sternō (present infinitive sternere, perfect active strāvī, supine strātum); third conjugation
* (transitive) to spread, stretch out, spread out
    Synonyms: cōnfundō, effundō, fundō, diffundō, dēfundō, differō, indūcō, dissipō
* (transitive, rare) to calm, still, moderate
* (transitive) to cover, spread with, scatter with, bestrew with, besprinkle
* (transitive, of a road, path) to pave, cover
* (transitive) to stretch on the ground, throw to the ground, cast down, strike down, prostrate
    Synonyms: prōsternō, fundō, prōflīgō, impellō, ruō, subvertō, pervertō, ēvertō, dēturbō, versō, afflīgō
* to overthrow
    Synonyms: prōflīgō, impellō, subvertō, fundō, pervertō, ēvertō, dēturbō, prōsternō, afflīgō, dissipō, vertō, versō
** c. 13th C., O Fortuna, lines 34-36:
    Quod per sortem sternit fortem, mecum omnes plangite!That which through fate strikes the strong man down, everyone bemoan [it] with me!
* (transitive, by extension) to knock to the ground, demolish, raze, level, flatten
    Synonyms: assolō, adaequō, aequō, pariō

#### Derived terms

* asternō
* cōnsternō
* desternō
* exsternō
* īnsternō
* persternō
* prōsternō
* sternāx
* strāta
* strātum
* strātus
* substernō

#### Descendants

* Franco-Provençal: êterdre
* Old French: esternir (through alternative form *sternire), esterdre (merged with the root extergere)
** French: éternir (dialectal, Normandy), étarnir (dialectal, Savoie), éterdre (dialectal, Savoie, Jura and Switzerland)
* Friulian: stierni
* Italian: sternere

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “sternō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 586

### Further reading

* “sterno”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “sterno”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* sterno in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to pave a road: viam sternere (silice, saxo) to saddle a horse: sternere equum (ambiguous) to prostrate oneself before a person: ad pedes alicuius iacēre, stratum esse (stratum iacēre)
* Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

## Old High German
### Alternative forms

* sterro, stern

### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sternō, from Proto-Germanic *sternô, *sternǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr. Compare Old Saxon sterro, Old Frisian stēra, Old English steorra, Old Norse stjarna, Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌽𐍉 (stairnō).

### Noun

sterno m
* star

#### Descendants

* Middle High German: stërne, stërre, stërn
** Alemannic German: Stern
** Bavarian: Stean
    Mòcheno: stern
** Central Franconian: Stään, Stär, Stären, Stern
    Hunsrik: Stern
    Luxembourgish: Stär
** German: Stern
** Vilamovian: śtaom
** Yiddish: שטערן (shtern)