sternuto

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sternuto m (plural sternuti)

1. (uncommon) alternative form of starnuto

Related terms

• sternutire

Latin

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Etymology

From sternuō +‎ -tō (forming frequentatives).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [stɛrˈnuː.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [sterˈnuː.to]

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

   Conjugation of sternūtō (first conjugation)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	sternūtō		sternūtās		sternūtat		sternūtāmus		sternūtātis		sternūtant
	imperfect	sternūtābam		sternūtābās		sternūtābat		sternūtābāmus		sternūtābātis		sternūtābant
	future	sternūtābō		sternūtābis		sternūtābit		sternūtābimus		sternūtābitis		sternūtābunt
	perfect	sternūtāvī		sternūtāvistī		sternūtāvit		sternūtāvimus		sternūtāvistis		sternūtāvērunt, sternūtāvēre
	pluperfect	sternūtāveram		sternūtāverās		sternūtāverat		sternūtāverāmus		sternūtāverātis		sternūtāverant
	future perfect	sternūtāverō		sternūtāveris		sternūtāverit		sternūtāverimus		sternūtāveritis		sternūtāverint
passive	present	sternūtor		sternūtāris, sternūtāre		sternūtātur		sternūtāmur		sternūtāminī		sternūtantur
	imperfect	sternūtābar		sternūtābāris, sternūtābāre		sternūtābātur		sternūtābāmur		sternūtābāminī		sternūtābantur
	future	sternūtābor		sternūtāberis, sternūtābere		sternūtābitur		sternūtābimur		sternūtābiminī		sternūtābuntur
	perfect	sternūtātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	sternūtātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	sternūtātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	sternūtem		sternūtēs		sternūtet		sternūtēmus		sternūtētis		sternūtent
	imperfect	sternūtārem		sternūtārēs		sternūtāret		sternūtārēmus		sternūtārētis		sternūtārent
	perfect	sternūtāverim		sternūtāverīs		sternūtāverit		sternūtāverīmus		sternūtāverītis		sternūtāverint
	pluperfect	sternūtāvissem		sternūtāvissēs		sternūtāvisset		sternūtāvissēmus		sternūtāvissētis		sternūtāvissent
passive	present	sternūter		sternūtēris, sternūtēre		sternūtētur		sternūtēmur		sternūtēminī		sternūtentur
	imperfect	sternūtārer		sternūtārēris, sternūtārēre		sternūtārētur		sternūtārēmur		sternūtārēminī		sternūtārentur
	perfect	sternūtātus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	sternūtātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		sternūtā		—		—		sternūtāte		—
	future	—		sternūtātō		sternūtātō		—		sternūtātōte		sternūtantō
passive	present	—		sternūtāre		—		—		sternūtāminī		—
	future	—		sternūtātor		sternūtātor		—		—		sternūtantor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		sternūtāre			sternūtārī			sternūtāns			—
future		sternūtātūrum esse			sternūtātum īrī			sternūtātūrus			sternūtandus
perfect		sternūtāvisse			sternūtātum esse			—			sternūtātus
future perfect		—			sternūtātum fore			—			—
perfect potential		sternūtātūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		sternūtandī		sternūtandō		sternūtandum		sternūtandō		sternūtātum		sternūtātū

Related terms

• sternuō
• sternūtum

Descendants

• Balkano-Romance:
  • Aromanian: stãrnut, stãrnutari, shtirnutedz
  • Romanian: strănuta, strănutare
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Corsican: starnutà, sternutì
  • Italian: starnutare, starnutire
  • Neapolitan: stranutà, starnutà, stornutà
  • Sicilian: stranutari, sranutari
  • Venetan: starnudar
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: starnudâ
  • Romansch: starnidar, sturnidar, starnüdar
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Emilian: stranüdar, stranuder
  • Ligurian: stranuâ
  • Lombard: stranudar, sternudar
  • Piedmontese: stranué, stranuvé
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: esternuder, esternuer
    • Middle French: esternuer
      • French: éternuer
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: esternudar, astornudar, astarnudar
  • Occitan: esternudar, estornudar, esternugar, estornugar

    Gascon: estornir, estornuar, esturnedir

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: estornudar
  • Spanish: estornudar
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: isturridai, isturridare, isturritare, isturrudai, isturrudare, sturridai
• Borrowings:
  • → English: sternutate

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.