# stelo
## English
### Etymology

From Esperanto stelo. Doublet of estoile, étoile, and stella.

### Noun

stelo (plural steloj)
* (numismatics) A monetary unit of Esperantists from 1945 to 1993, one of whose aims was to achieve a single world currency.
** 1980 July, COINage, volume 16, number 7, Ventura, Calif.: Behn-Miller Publishers, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 51–52:One stelo theoretically equals in value of one kilogram of bread. […] The five steloj, 1959 (60), obverse shows a world globe symbolizing the unity of mankind. […] Most Esperantists use International Reply Coupons for the purposes for which stelo coins were intended, he added.
** 1982 September, Marvin Kay, “Medicine in Numismatics”, in N[orris] Neil Harris, editor, The Numismatist, volume 95, number 9, Colorado Springs, Colo.: American Numismatic Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2237, column 2:More patterns were issued in 1959, these in 1-, 5- and 10-steloj denominations. The piece shown here is a 25-steloj coin issued in Poland in 1965.
** 2013, Jay M. Galst, Peter G[erritt] van Alfen, “Ophthalmologists Famous in Other Fields”, in Ophthalmologia: Optica et Visio in Nummis (Hirschberg History of Ophthalmology: The Monographs; 13), Piribebuy, Cordillera: Jean-Paul Wayenborgh; New York, N.Y.: American Numismatic Society, →ISBN, page 137:Stelo fantasy coins were minted in several other denominations: a series from 1959, for example, features a bronze 1 stelo, an aluminum-bronze 5 steloj, and a copper-nickel 10 steloj.
** 2024, Roberto Menchaca, “Esperanto in Numismatics”, in Alena Adler, Logan Hall, editors, Usona Esperantisto, number 2024:1, El Cerrito, Calif.: Esperanto-USA, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19, column 1:The first coins were minted in 1959 by the Royal Dutch Mint in Utrecht in the denominations of one, five and ten steloj. […] In 1965 a fourth type of coin was added to the former with a nominal value of 25 steloj. […] Silver and gold varieties of the 25-stelo coins were also produced.

### See also

* spesmilo

### Further reading

* stelo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From Latin stella. Doublet of astro and astero.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈstelo]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -elo
* Hyphenation: ste‧lo

### Noun

stelo (accusative singular stelon, plural steloj, accusative plural stelojn)
* star
    verda stelo ― green star
* (numismatics) stelo (a unit of Esperanto international currency issued by the Universal League from 1945 to 1993)

#### Derived terms

* ĉefstelo
* duobla stelo
* falstelo
* fiksa stelo
* kelkopa stelo / kelkobla stelo / multobla stelo
* kvaropa stelo
* marstelo
* neŭtrona stelo
* stelamaso
* steleto
* stellumo
* stelulo / stelulino
* triobla stelo
* vesperstelo

#### Descendants

* Ido: stelo

## Ido
### Etymology

From Esperanto, from Latin stella.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈstelo/

### Noun

stelo (plural steli)
* star

## Italian
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin stilus. Doublet of stilo and stile, which were borrowed from Latin and French respectively.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈstɛ.lo/
* Rhymes: -ɛlo
* Hyphenation: stè‧lo

### Noun

stelo m (plural steli)
* stem (of a plant)
* rod

#### Related terms

* stilo

### Further reading

* stelo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* lesto, solte, stole, tolse