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starr
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Late Latin starrum, from Hebrew שְׁטָר (šĕṭār).
Noun
starr (plural starrs or starra)
- (historical) A receipt given by Jews on payment of debt.
- 1846, Moses Margoliouth, The Jews in Great Britain:
- It is well known that, before the banishment of the Jews under Edward I., their contracts and obligations were denominated in our ancient records starra, or starrs, from a corruption of the Hebrew word shetar, a covenant.
- 1932, The Publications of the Selden Society, volume 49, page 1:
- Huntingdonshirr. son of master Moss the Jew, by his charter, he came before the justices, etc., and proffered certain starrs of acquittance of the said debt which the aforesaid Jacob had made to the aforesaid Nicholas his father, as he says, at the time when the same Jacob had the free administration of his goods.
- 2013, Sarah Rees Jones, Christians and Jews in Angevin England:
- Later in the same year 'when Burnell had retired from court' he personally acknowledged twenty-two Jewish starra whilst he was staying at Beaulieu.
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German
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle High German star, from Old High German *star, from Proto-West Germanic *star.
Adjective
starr (strong nominative masculine singular starrer, comparative starrer, superlative am starrsten)
- rigid
- Er stand ganz starr da. ― He stood there completely still.
Declension
Positive forms of starr
Comparative forms of starr
Superlative forms of starr
Alternative forms
- storr (archaic or regional)
Derived terms
- Starre
- Starrheit
Related terms
See also
Etymology 2
See the lemma.
Verb
starr
Further reading
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Irish
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
Noun
starr f (genitive singular starra, nominative plural starrtha)
- protrusion (anything that protrudes), prominence (bulge), projection (something which projects)
- (anatomy, biology) process (outgrowth of tissue or cell; structure that arises above a surface.)
Declension
Derived terms
- starrach
- starrán
- starrfhiacail
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “starr”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English starre, steorre, from Old English steorra, from Proto-West Germanic *sterrō.
Pronunciation
Noun
starr (plural starrès)
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 69
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