# stare
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: stâr
* (General American) IPA: /stɛɚ/
** Audio (US):(file)
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /stɛə/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General Australian) IPA: /steː/
* (New Zealand, without the cheer–chair merger) IPA: /steə/
* (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) IPA: /stiə/
* (Scotland) IPA: /steɹ/
* (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA: /stɜː(ɹ)/
* Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
* Homophones: stair; steer (cheer–chair merger); stir (fair–fur merger)

### Etymology 1

From Middle English staren, from Old English starian (“to stare”), from Proto-West Germanic *starēn, from Proto-Germanic *starjaną, *starāną (“to be fixed, be rigid”), from Proto-Indo-European *ster-.
Cognate with Dutch staren (“to stare”), German starren (“to stare”), German starr (“stiff”). More at start.

#### Verb

stare (third-person singular simple present stares, present participle staring, simple past and past participle stared)
* (intransitive, followed by "at") To look fixedly (at something).
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:stare
** 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:Her sturdy stallion had now unbutton'd, and produced naked, stiff, and erect, that wonderful machine, which I had never seen before, and which, for the interest my own seat of pleasure began to take furiously in it, I star'd at with all the eyes I had
** 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.
* (transitive) To influence in some way by looking fixedly.
    to stare a timid person into submission
* (intransitive) To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, colour, or brilliancy.
    staring windows or colours
* (intransitive, obsolete) To stand out; to project; to bristle.
** 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:Makest my blood cold, and my hair to stare.
** 1707, John Mortimer, The whole Art of Husbandry, in the way of Managing and Improving of Land:Take off all the staring straws, twigs and jags in the hive.

##### Troponyms

* gaze, to stare intently or earnestly
* ogle, to stare covetously or amorously

##### Derived terms

* outstare
* stare at the wall
* stare daggers
* stare down
* staredown
* stare into space
* stare like a stuck pig
* stare out
* stare someone in the face
* upstare

##### Translations
#### Noun

stare (plural stares)
* A persistent gaze.
    the stares of astonished passers-by

##### Derived terms

* Antarctic stare
* death stare
* fluoride stare
* hundred-yard stare
* Kubrick stare
* thousand-mile stare
* thousand-yard stare

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Middle English star, ster, from Old English stær (“starling”), from Proto-Germanic *starô (“starling”), from Proto-Indo-European *stor- (“starling”).
Cognate with German Star (“starling”), Danish stær (“starling”), Swedish stare (“starling”), Norwegian Nynorsk stare (“starling”), Icelandic stari (“starling”). Compare also Old English stearn (“a type of bird, starling”).

#### Noun

stare (plural stares)
* (now archaic) A starling. [from 9th c.]
    Synonyms: common starling, European starling
** 1634, William Wood, “Of the Birds and Fowles both of Land and Water”, in New Englands Prospect. A True, Lively, and Experimentall Description of that Part of America, Commonly Called New England; […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Bellamie, […], →OCLC, 1st part, page 29:The Stares be bigger than thoſe in England, as blacke as Crovves, being the most troubleſome, and injurious bird of all others, pulling up the cornes by the roots, vvhen it is young, […]

### See also

* stare decisis

### Further reading

* “stare”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “stare”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, pages 5906–5907.

### Anagrams

* teras, -aster, reast, earst, treas., taser, setar, TASer, aster-, arste, Stear, sater, stear, aster, tares, Satre, tarse, Sater, arets, tears, resat, rates, Aerts, Aters, Tesar, 'earts, Taser

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

stare
* (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of staren

### Anagrams

* Aster

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin stāre. Cognate with Spanish estar and English state.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsta.re/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -are
* Hyphenation: stà‧re

### Verb

stàre (first-person singular present (with syntactic gemination after the verb) stò, first-person singular past historic stétti or (traditional) stètti, past participle stàto, first-person singular future starò, first-person singular subjunctive stìa, first-person singular imperfect subjunctive stéssi, second-person singular imperative stài or stà', auxiliary èssere) (intransitive)
* to stay, remain
    Synonyms: restare, rimanere
    stare attenti (a) ― to pay attention (to)
    (Lui/Lei/Egli/Ella/Esso/Essa) starà a casa. ― He/She/It will stay/remain at home.
* to keep, stick [with a]
    Synonym: attenersi
* (followed by a gerund) to be doing something (present continuous)
    (Io) sto andando. ― I am going.
    (Io) sto andando via/me ne sto andando. ― I am leaving.
* to be up to [with a]
    Synonyms: toccare, spettare
    Sta a te decidere. ― It’s up to you to decide.
* to be about to [with per]
    (Io) sto per andare via. ― I am about to leave.
* (mathematics) to be in relation to, to stand in relation to (in English idiom applicable to statements of analogy and/or of mathematical relationship: "to be to") [with a]
    4 sta a 8 come 5 sta a 10. ― 4 is to 8 as 5 is to 10.
* (regional) to live
    Synonyms: vivere, abitare
    Mia sorella sta a Roma. ― My sister lives in Rome.
* to be in a certain condition
    Synonym: essere
    come stai (tu)?how are you?
    stare a dieta significa ridurre le calorie di ingresso e aumentarne il consumo con il movimentobeing on a diet entails reducing calorie intake and increasing calories burned through exercise

#### Usage notes

The second person imperative (sta') has univerbated compound forms:
* sta' + mi = stammi
* sta' + ti = statti
* sta' + gli = stagli
* sta' + le = stalle
* sta' + ci = stacci
* sta' + ne = stanne

#### Conjugation

$^1$With syntactic gemination after the verb. $^2$Traditional.
Including lesser-used forms:
$^1$With syntactic gemination after the verb. $^2$Archaic poetic. $^3$Disused. $^4$Traditional. $^5$Popular or Tuscan. $^6$Archaic. $^7$Archaic or popular.

#### Derived terms

* starci
* stare dietro
* stare per
* starsene
* starsi

#### Related terms

* stagione
* stanza
* stazione

#### Descendants

* Sabir: star
* → Esperanto: stari

### Anagrams

* -astre, Tresa, estra-, resta, sarte, tersa

## Latin
### Verb

stāre
* present active infinitive of stō

## Lower Sorbian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈstarɛ/, [ˈstarə]

### Adjective

stare
* inflection of stary:
** neuter nominative/accusative singular
** nominative/accusative plural

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* star

### Etymology

From Old Norse stari.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²stɑːrə/

### Noun

stare m (definite singular staren, indefinite plural starar, definite plural starane)
* a starling (a songbird, Sturnus vulgaris)
* (dialectal, Southern Norway) a thrush

### See also

* stær (Bokmål)

### References

* “stare” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsta.rɛ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -arɛ
* Syllabification: sta‧re
* Homophone: Stare

### Adjective

stare
* inflection of stary:
** neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
** nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural

## Romanian
### Etymology

From sta +‎ -re.

### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -are

### Noun

stare f (plural stări)
* status, standing, situation, position, condition
* state

#### Derived terms

* în stare

#### See also

* stat

### References

* stare in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

## Serbo-Croatian
### Adjective

stare
* inflection of star:
** masculine accusative plural
** feminine genitive singular
** feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Norse stari, from Proto-Germanic *staraz, from Proto-Indo-European *storo- (“starling”) or *(s)tern- (“starling”), same ultimate source as Old Prussian starnite (“gull”).

### Noun

stare c
* starling (a bird)

#### Declension
### Anagrams

* arets, etsar, raset, reats, retas, treas

## Tarantino
### Etymology

From Latin stāre.

### Verb

stare
* (intransitive) to stay, remain
* (intransitive) to be

#### Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.
* Present tense:- stoche, sté or stéje, sté or stéje, stáme, státe, stonne