storea

Latin

Alternative forms

• storia

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃-. Cognate with Ancient Greek στόρνυμι (stórnumi, “scatter”), στρατός (stratós, “army, people, body of men”), Swedish strö, Old English strewian (English strew) and Latin sternō, strāmen and torus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈstɔ.re.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈstɔː.re.a]

Noun

storea f (genitive storeae); first declension

1. mat (of rush or straw)

   Synonyms: teges, matta

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	storea	storeae
genitive	storeae	storeārum
dative	storeae	storeīs
accusative	stoream	storeās
ablative	storeā	storeīs
vocative	storea	storeae

Descendants

• Catalan: estora
• Emilian: stora
  • → French: store
    • → Catalan: estor
    • → Galician: estor
    • → German: Store
      • → Russian: штора (štora)
    • → Portuguese: estore
    • → Bulgarian: щора (štora)
• Italian: stuoia
• Piedmontese: steuja
• Old Galician-Portuguese: esteira
  • Galician: esteira
• Old Spanish: estuera
  • Spanish: estera
    • → Portuguese: esteira

References

• “storea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “storea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “storea”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.