stiria

== English == === Etymology === From Latin stīria (“icicle”). === Noun === stiria (plural stiriae) An icicle-shaped concretion. === Anagrams === Istria == Latin == === Etymology === Unknown. Suggested to be from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“stiff”). If so, possibly cognate with sterilis, strēnuus. See also Old English steorfan (“to die”), Latin torpeō, Lithuanian tirpstu (“to become rigid”), Old Church Slavonic трупети (trupeti). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈstiː.ri.a] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈstiː.ri.a] === Noun === stīria f (genitive stīriae); first declension icicle, ice drop, hoarfrost ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== stilla ==== Descendants ==== ⇒ Sicilian: stizza (via an unattested Vulgar Latin intermediate form) → English: stiria === References === “stiria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “stiria”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “stiria”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎[1] “stiria”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly