sternuto

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sterˈnu.to/
  • Rhymes: -uto
  • Hyphenation: ster‧nù‧to

Noun

sternuto m (plural sternuti)

  1. (uncommon) alternative form of starnuto

Latin

FWOTD – 22 December 2020

Etymology

Frequentative of sternuō.

Pronunciation

Verb

sternūtō (present infinitive sternūtāre, perfect active sternūtāvī, supine sternūtātum); first conjugation

  1. to sneeze (repeatedly or violently)
    • Nicholas Everett (ed.), The Alphabet of Galen: Pharmacy from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, University of Toronto Press (publ. 2012).
      Quarum optima est iris illyrica et macedonica, est enim spississima et breuis et non fragilis et subrufa, odore suauissima et gustu linguam uiscide excalefacit et dum tunditur sternutare facit.
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Conjugation

Descendants

  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: stãrnut, stãrnutari, shtirnutedz
    • Romanian: strănuta, strănutare
  • Italo-Romance:
  • Padanian:
    • Emilian: stranüdar, stranuder
    • Friulian: starnudâ
    • Ligurian: stranuâ
    • Lombard: stranudar, sternudar
    • Piedmontese: stranué, stranuvé
    • Romansch: starnidar, sturnidar, starnüdar
    • Venetan: starnudar
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: isturridai, isturridare, isturritare, isturrudai, isturrudare, sturridai
  • Borrowings:

References

  • sternuto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • sternuto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.