Stern

See also: stern, stern-, and Štern

English

Alternative forms

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)

  1. A surname.

Derived terms

Anagrams

French

Etymology

    Borrowed from German Stern.

    Proper noun

    Stern ?

    1. a surname from German

    German

    Sterne am Nachthimmel — Stars in the night sky (1, 2)
    Eine Animation des Sterns Sirius — An animation of the star Sirius. (2)
    Auf der Flagge von Chile ist ein weißer Stern. — There is a white star on the flag of Chile. (3,4)

    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 (“celebrity”).

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /ʃtɛʁn/, [ʃtɛʁn], [ʃtɛɐ̯n]
      • Rhymes: -ɛʁn
      • Audio:(file)
      • Audio (Germany (Berlin)):(file)

      Noun

      Stern m (strong, genitive Sternes or Sterns, plural Sterne, diminutive Sternchen n or Sternlein n or Sternderl n)

      1. 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[1] (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
      2. (astronomy) a star; the actual celestial body
        Synonyms: Gestirn n, Sonne f
      3. (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
      4. a star; symbol used as a rating, e.g. for hotels, movies, etc.
        Fünf-Sterne-Hotel ― five-star hotel
      5. (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)
      6. (figuratively, chiefly Sternchen) a star, starlet, celebrity, something or someone popular
        Synonym: Star m
        ein Schlagerstern(chen) ― a schlager-music starlet
      7. A term of endearment.
      8. (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

      Declension of Stern [masculine, strong]
      singular plural
      indef. def. noun def. noun
      nominative ein der Stern die Sterne
      genitive eines des Sternes, Sterns der Sterne
      dative einem dem Stern, Sterne1 den Sternen
      accusative einen den Stern die Sterne

      1Now rare, see notes.

      Hypernyms

      Synonyms

      Rotwelsch words for star:

      Hyponyms

      Derived terms

      See also

      Proper noun

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

      1. a surname

      Further reading

      Hunsrik

      Etymology

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

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /ˈʃtɛn/
      • Rhymes: -ɛn
      • Syllabification: Stern

      Noun

      Stern m (plural Stern, diminutive Sternche)

      1. star

      Noun

      Stern f (plural Sterne)

      1. forehead

      Further reading

      Polish

      Etymology

      Etymology tree
      Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₁-der.
      Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-
      Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
      Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr
      Proto-Germanic *sternǭ
      Proto-West Germanic *sternō
      Old High German sterno
      Middle High German stërne
      German Sternbor.
      Polish Stern

        Borrowed from German Stern.

        Pronunciation

        • IPA(key): /ˈstɛrn/
        • Rhymes: -ɛrn
        • Syllabification: Stern

        Proper noun

        Stern m pers

        1. a male surname from German

        Declension

        Declension of Stern
        singular plural
        nominative Stern Sternowie, Sterny1
        genitive Sterna Sternów
        dative Sternowi Sternom
        accusative Sterna Sternów
        instrumental Sternem Sternami
        locative Sternie Sternach
        vocative Sternie Sternowie

        1Deprecative.

        Proper noun

        Stern f (indeclinable)

        1. a female surname from German

        Further reading

        • “Stern”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[3] (in Polish)

        Portuguese

        Etymology

        Etymology tree
        Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₁-der.
        Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-
        Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
        Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr
        Proto-Germanic *sternǭ
        Proto-West Germanic *sternō
        Old High German sterno
        Middle High German stërne
        German Sternbor.
        Portuguese Stern

          Borrowed from German Stern.

          Proper noun

          Stern m or f by sense

          1. a surname from German

          Spanish

          Etymology

          Etymology tree
          Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₁-der.
          Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-
          Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
          Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr
          Proto-Germanic *sternǭ
          Proto-West Germanic *sternō
          Old High German sterno
          Middle High German stërne
          German Sternbor.
          Spanish Stern

            Borrowed from German Stern.

            Proper noun

            Stern m or f by sense

            1. a surname from German
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