Stern

German (Berlin)

/ʃtɛʁn/

noun
Definitions
  • a star; a small luminous dot that can be seen on the night sky
  • (astronomy) a star; the actual celestial body
  • (geometry) a star, a mullet, or anything that resembles such an object
  • a star; the symbol used to rate hotels, movies, etc.
  • (printing) an asterisk (*)
  • (figuratively) a star, starlet, celebrity, something or somebody popular
  • (meteorology) a stellar crystal, a snow crystal possessing the shape of a star

Etymology

Inherited from Old High German sterno inherited from Proto-Germanic *sternǭ (star) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr (star).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*h₂stḗr

Gloss

star

Concept
Semantic Field

The physical world

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Kanji

星

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