stea

Romanian

Alternative forms

• steauă — popular

Etymology

With apocope from colloquial steauă, from archaic steală, from Latin stēlla, from Proto-Italic *stērolā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr. Doublet of aster and star.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ste̯a/

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• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: stea

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Noun

stea f (plural stele)

1. star (celestial body)
2. star (star-shaped thing)
3. star (most important person in e.g. a film)

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	stea	steaua		stele	stelele
genitive-dative	stele	stelei		stele	stelelor
vocative	stea			stelelor

Derived terms

• înstela
• stelar
• stelesc
• steli
• stelos

Related terms

• stei

Verb

stea

1. third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of sta

References

• “stea”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

Venetan

Noun

stea f (plural stee)

1. obsolete spelling of steła (“star”)