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steavă
star (archaic/regional form of "stea") /ˈste̯avə/
noun#1254 most common
Example sentences
Noaptea, pe cer, strălucește o steavă.
At night, a star shines in the sky.
Copilul a arătat spre o steavă micuță.
The child pointed at a small star.
Steava de pe cer parcă îmi făcea cu ochiul.
The star in the sky seemed to wink at me.
Bătrânii satului povesteau despre o steavă căzătoare care aducea noroc.
The village elders used to tell stories about a shooting star that brought luck.
În cântecul de leagăn, mama pomenea de-o steavă blândă ce veghea somnul copiilor.
In the lullaby, the mother mentioned a gentle star that watched over the children's sleep.
În graiul bătrânesc al satului, bunica mai zicea uneori «steavă» în loc de «stea», păstrând o formă veche a limbii.
In the old village dialect, the grandmother sometimes said "steavă" instead of "stea", keeping an older form of the language alive.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | steavă | steve |
| Genitive | stevei | stevelor |
| Accusative | steavă | steve |
| Vocative | steavo | stevelor |
Word family
steastar (the standard modern word)
stelarstellar
constelațieconstellation
înstelatstarry, star-studded
Etymology
Steavă descends, like the standard word stea, from Latin stella, meaning star. Stella was itself built from an older stem related to the word for star and carried a diminutive ending. As Latin evolved into Romanian, the word contracted in most speech to stea, but some regions and older texts kept a fuller, more conservative shape, which survives as steauă or steavă.
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