Stella
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈstɛlə/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛlə
- Homophones: stella; stellar, steller, Steller (non-rhotic)
- Hyphenation: Stel‧la
Proper noun
[edit]Stella
- A female given name from Latin.
- 1933, Eleanor Farjeon, “Girls' Names”, in Over the Garden Wall, Faber and Faber, page 91:
- What lovely names for girls there are! / There's Stella like the Evening Star,
- Ellipsis of Stella Artois., a brand of beer; or a serving of such.
- I'm going to have a few Stellas tonight
- 2006, “Sheila”, performed by Jamie T:
- Sheila goes out with her mate Stella / It gets poured all over her fella
- A town in South Africa.
- A village in Missouri.
- A village in Nebraska.
- A town in Wisconsin.
- A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ1763). [1]
- (US, numismatics) A gold coin with a face value of $4.00 proposed for use in the United States in the 19th century.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]female given name
Noun
[edit]Stella (plural Stellas)
- (Jamaica, slang, derogatory) A black woman who visits Jamaica as a sex tourist; named after the protagonist of How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998).
- Coordinate term: milk bottle
- (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
- 2018, Bianca C. Williams, The Pursuit of Happiness[1], Duke University Press, →ISBN:
- They often come thinking that Jamaican women are not going to like them, because they have heard from others in the United States that Jamaican women have a bad attitude and are upset that these “Stellas” are taking all of their men.
References
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[edit]Danish
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[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Stella
- a female given name
Dutch
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[edit]Pronunciation
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[edit]Stella f
- a female given name from Latin
Estonian
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Stella
- a female given name
Faroese
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Stella f
- a female given name
Usage notes
[edit]Matronymics
- son of Stella: Stelluson
- daughter of Stella: Stelludóttir
Declension
[edit]singular | |
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indefinite | |
nominative | Stella |
accusative | Stellu |
dative | Stellu |
genitive | Stellu |
Finnish
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[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Stella
- a female given name
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Stella (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Stella | Stellat | |
genitive | Stellan | Stellojen | |
partitive | Stellaa | Stelloja | |
illative | Stellaan | Stelloihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Stella | Stellat | |
accusative | nom. | Stella | Stellat |
gen. | Stellan | ||
genitive | Stellan | Stellojen Stellain rare | |
partitive | Stellaa | Stelloja | |
inessive | Stellassa | Stelloissa | |
elative | Stellasta | Stelloista | |
illative | Stellaan | Stelloihin | |
adessive | Stellalla | Stelloilla | |
ablative | Stellalta | Stelloilta | |
allative | Stellalle | Stelloille | |
essive | Stellana | Stelloina | |
translative | Stellaksi | Stelloiksi | |
abessive | Stellatta | Stelloitta | |
instructive | — | Stelloin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics
[edit]- Stella is the 222nd most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 2,603 female individuals (and as a middle name to 419 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
German
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[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Stella
- a female given name
Icelandic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ultimately from Latin stella (“star”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Stella f (proper noun, genitive singular Stellu)
- a female given name
- A female nickname
- (colloquial) Stella Artois beer
Usage notes
[edit]As a nickname, this name is frequently used for women with various unrelated and dissimilar given names.
Declension
[edit]Italian
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[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Stella f
- a female given name
- A commune of Liguria
- A river in Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From stēlla (“star”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈsteːl.la/, [ˈs̠t̪eːlːʲä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈstel.la/, [ˈst̪ɛlːä]
Proper noun
[edit]Stēlla m sg (genitive Stēllae); first declension
- A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
- Lucius Arruntius Stella, a Roman senator
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun, singular only.
singular | |
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nominative | Stēlla |
genitive | Stēllae |
dative | Stēllae |
accusative | Stēllam |
ablative | Stēllā |
vocative | Stēlla |
References
[edit]- Stella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin stella. First recorded as a Swedish name in 1857.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Proper noun
[edit]Stella c (genitive Stellas)
- a female given name
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- en:Towns in South Africa
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