sternuo
Latin
Etymology
Presumably imitative or from a Proto-Indo-European root connected to Polish kichać, Russian чихать (čixatʹ), Lithuanian čiáudėti, Sanskrit क्षु (kṣu), Breton strevia and Ancient Greek πταρμός (ptarmós, “a sneezing”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈster.nu.oː/, [ˈstɛr.nʊ.oː]
Verb
sternuō (present infinitive sternuere, perfect active sternuī); third conjugation, no passive
- (intransitive) I sneeze
Inflection
| Conjugation of sternuo (third conjugation, active only) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | sternuō | sternuis | sternuit | sternuimus | sternuitis | sternuunt |
| imperfect | sternuēbam | sternuēbās | sternuēbat | sternuēbāmus | sternuēbātis | sternuēbant | |
| future | sternuam | sternuēs | sternuet | sternuēmus | sternuētis | sternuent | |
| perfect | sternuī | sternuistī | sternuit | sternuimus | sternuistis | sternuērunt, sternuēre | |
| pluperfect | sternueram | sternuerās | sternuerat | sternuerāmus | sternuerātis | sternuerant | |
| future perfect | sternuerō | sternueris | sternuerit | sternuerimus | sternueritis | sternuerint | |
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | sternuam | sternuās | sternuat | sternuāmus | sternuātis | sternuant |
| imperfect | sternuerem | sternuerēs | sternueret | sternuerēmus | sternuerētis | sternuerent | |
| perfect | sternuerim | sternuerīs | sternuerit | sternuerimus | sternueritis | sternuerint | |
| pluperfect | sternuissem | sternuissēs | sternuisset | sternuissēmus | sternuissētis | sternuissent | |
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | sternue | — | — | sternuite | — |
| future | — | sternuitō | sternuitō | — | sternuitōte | sternuuntō | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | sternuere | sternuisse | — | — | — | — | |
| participles | sternuēns | — | — | — | — | — | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| nominative | genitive | dative/ablative | accusative | accusative | ablative | ||
| sternuere | sternuendī | sternuendō | sternuendum | — | — | ||
Derived terms
- sternūmentum
- sternūtō
- sternūtum
Related terms
- sternūtāmentum
- sternūtātiō
References
- sternuo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sternuo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sternuo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette