# Stern
## English
### Alternative forms

* Sterne

### Etymology

* As a German and Jewish surname, from the noun Stern (“star”). This was also borrowed into various Slavic languages such as Serbo-Crotian and Slovenian.
* As an English surname, from the adjective stern.

### Proper noun

Stern (plural Sterns)
* A surname.

#### Derived terms

* Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method
* Stern-Brocot tree
* Stern-Gerlach experiment

### Anagrams

* 'rents, Ernst, Snert, nerts, rents, snert, terns

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Stern.

### Proper noun

Stern ?
* a surname from German

## German

Picture dictionary :
Stern :

### Etymology

From Middle High German stërne, from Old High German sterno, from Proto-West Germanic *sternō, from Proto-Germanic *sternǭ, *sternô, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.
See also Dutch ster (“star”), Old English steorra (“star”) (Modern English star), Danish stjerne (“star”), Swedish stjärna (“star”), Icelandic stjarna (“star”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌽𐍉 (stairnō); also Latin stēlla (“star”), Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr, “star”) and Sanskrit तारा (tārā, “star”). Doublet of Aster and Star.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃtɛʁn/, [ʃtɛʁn], [ʃtɛɐ̯n]
* Rhymes: -ɛʁn
* Audio:(file)
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### Noun

Stern m (strong, genitive Sternes or Sterns, plural Sterne, diminutive Sternchen n or Sternlein n)
* a star; a small luminous dot that can be seen on the night sky
** 1924, Friedrich Bernhard Störzner, Das weiße Männchen auf dem Kirchberge, in: Reinhardtswalder Sagenbüchlein, Buchhandlung Otto Schmidt, page 11:
    Droben am Himmel funkelten die Sterne in seltener Pracht.Up in the sky the stars sparkled in unusual magnificence.
** 1919, Aleksey Remizov, translated by Arthur Luther, Legenden und Geschichten‎ (fiction), Leipzig: Kurt Wolff, →ISBN:Und die Sterne gingen mit dem nächtlichen Dunkel, der Morgen graute, […]And the stars went away with the dark of the night, the morning dawned, […]
    Morgenstern ― morning star
    Barnards Stern ― Barnard's Star
* (astronomy) a star; the actual celestial body
    Synonyms: Gestirn n, Sonne f
* (geometry, heraldry) a star, a mullet, or anything that resembles such an object
    fünfzackiger Stern ― five-pointed star
    Davidstern ― Star of David
    Sternenbanner ― stars and stripes (the flag of the USA)
    NATO-Stern ― NATO star
    der rote Stern ― the red star
* a star; symbol used as a rating, e.g. for hotels, movies, etc.
    Fünf-Sterne-Hotel ― five-star hotel
* (printing, often Sternchen) an asterisk (*)
    Synonym: Asterisk m
** 2007, Klaus M. Rodewig, Amin Negm-Awad, Objective-C und Cocoa: Programmieren unter Apple Mac OS X, 2nd edition, page 83:Bei der Deklaration eines Zeigers kann der Stern (Asterisk) sowohl beim Namen der Variablen (int *zahl) als auch beim Datentyp (int* zahl) stehen.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* (figuratively, chiefly Sternchen) a star, starlet, celebrity, something or someone popular
    Synonym: Star m
    ein Schlagerstern(chen) ― a schlager-music starlet
* A term of endearment.
* (meteorology) a stellar crystal, a snow crystal possessing the shape of a star

#### Usage notes

* In the diminutive, the predominant contemporary usage is to employ Sternlein in the sense of “luminous dot” and Sternchen in all other senses.

#### Declension

$^1$Now rare, see notes.

#### Hypernyms

* Himmelskörper m

#### Hyponyms

* Sonne f

#### Derived terms

* Abendstern
* Allerstern
* Augenstern
* bestirnt
* Blauer Riese
* Blumenstern
* Blütenstern
* Brauner Zwerg
* Bruststern
* Davidstern
* Doppelstern
* Einzelstern
* Fixstern
* Fröbelstern
* Glücksstern
* Goldstern
* Haufenstern
* Hefestern
* Hundsstern
* in den Sternen stehen
* Irrstern
* Judenstern
* Leitstern
* Mehrfachstern
* Milchstraßenstern
* Morgenstern
* Neutronenstern
* Papierstern
* Polarstern
* Rautenstern
* Riesenstern
* Roter Riese
* Roter Zwerg
* Schlagerstern
* Schwanzstern
* Schwarzer Zwerg
* Schwarzes Loch
* Schweifstern
* Seestern
* Silberstern
* Standstern
* sternbesät
* Sternbild
* Sternchen
* Sterndeutung
* Sternehotel
* sternenartig
* Sternengesang
* Sternenhimmel
* Sternenlicht
* Sternenmeer
* Sternennacht
* Sternennebel
* Sternenschiff
* Sternenstadt
* Sternenstaub
* Sternensystem
* Sternentor
* Sternentstehung
* sternförmig
* sternhagelvoll
* Sternhaufen
* Sternkreuzung
* Sternnebel
* Sternschnuppe
* Sternsystem
* Sternwolken
* Strohstern
* Unglücksstern
* Unheilsstern
* Wandelstern
* Weihnachtsstern
* Weißer Zwerg
* Zimtstern

#### See also

* Planet m
* Sonne f

### Proper noun

Stern m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Sterns or (with an article) Stern, feminine genitive Stern, plural Sterns)
* a surname

### Further reading

* “Stern” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
* “Stern” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
* “Stern” in Duden online
* Stern on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{de}$
* “Stern” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.

## Hunsrik
### Etymology

From Middle High German stërne, from Old High German sterno.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃtɛn/

### Noun

Stern m (plural Stern, diminutive Sternche)
* star

### Noun

Stern f (plural Sterne)
* forehead

### Further reading

* Online Hunsrik Dictionary

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Stern.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈstɛrn/
* Rhymes: -ɛrn
* Syllabification: Stern

### Proper noun

Stern m pers
* a male surname from German

#### Declension
### Proper noun

Stern f (indeclinable)
* a female surname from German

### Further reading

* Stern in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Stern.

### Proper noun

Stern m or f by sense
* a surname from German

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Stern.

### Proper noun

Stern m or f by sense
* a surname from German