stratus
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin stratus. Doublet of strath.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈstɹeɪtəs/, /ˈstɹætəs/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪtəs
- Hyphenation: stra‧tus
Noun
stratus (usually uncountable, plural strati)
- (meteorology) A principal, low-level cloud type in the form of a gray layer with a rather uniform base, usually not associated with precipitation, and capable of producing corona phenomena and a weak, uniform luminance; abbreviated St.
Translations
cloud
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Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin stratus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈstrɑtus/, [ˈs̠t̪rɑt̪us̠]
- Rhymes: -ɑtus
- Syllabification(key): stra‧tus
Noun
stratus
- Synonym of sumupilvi (“stratus (cloud)”)
Declension
| Inflection of stratus (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | stratus | stratukset | |
| genitive | stratuksen | stratusten stratuksien | |
| partitive | stratusta | stratuksia | |
| illative | stratukseen | stratuksiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | stratus | stratukset | |
| accusative | nom. | stratus | stratukset |
| gen. | stratuksen | ||
| genitive | stratuksen | stratusten stratuksien | |
| partitive | stratusta | stratuksia | |
| inessive | stratuksessa | stratuksissa | |
| elative | stratuksesta | stratuksista | |
| illative | stratukseen | stratuksiin | |
| adessive | stratuksella | stratuksilla | |
| ablative | stratukselta | stratuksilta | |
| allative | stratukselle | stratuksille | |
| essive | stratuksena | stratuksina | |
| translative | stratukseksi | stratuksiksi | |
| instructive | — | stratuksin | |
| abessive | stratuksetta | stratuksitta | |
| comitative | — | stratuksineen | |
| Possessive forms of stratus (type vastaus) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | stratukseni | stratuksemme |
| 2nd person | stratuksesi | stratuksenne |
| 3rd person | stratuksensa | |
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of sternō (“spread out”). Diachronically, from Proto-Italic *strātos, from Proto-Indo-European *str̥h₃tós. Cognate with Proto-Celtic *stratos (“valley”), ealier *“spread-out land”, Ancient Greek στρωτός (strōtós, “bestrewn, spread, laid out; smooth”), στρατός (stratós, “army, war band”), and Sanskrit स्तृत (stṛtá, “bestrewn, spread (out); extended, spacious; covered; overthrown”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈstraː.tus/, [ˈs̠t̪räːt̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈstra.tus/, [ˈst̪räːt̪us]
Participle
strātus (feminine strāta, neuter strātum); first/second-declension participle
- spread, stretched out, spread out, having been spread out
- (rare) calmed, stilled, moderated, having been calmed
- covered, spread with, scattered with, bestrewn with, having been covered (with)
- (of a road, path) paved, covered, having been paved
- stretched on the ground, cast down, struck down, prostrated, having been struck down
- (by extension) knocked to the ground, demolished, razed, levelled, flattened, having been razed
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | strātus | strāta | strātum | strātī | strātae | strāta | |
| Genitive | strātī | strātae | strātī | strātōrum | strātārum | strātōrum | |
| Dative | strātō | strātō | strātīs | ||||
| Accusative | strātum | strātam | strātum | strātōs | strātās | strāta | |
| Ablative | strātō | strātā | strātō | strātīs | |||
| Vocative | strāte | strāta | strātum | strātī | strātae | strāta | |
Noun
strātus m (genitive strātūs); fourth declension
- the act of spreading, strewing
- a bed-covering, coverlet, quilt, blanket
- vocative singular of strātus
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | strātus | strātūs |
| Genitive | strātūs | strātuum |
| Dative | strātuī | strātibus |
| Accusative | strātum | strātūs |
| Ablative | strātū | strātibus |
| Vocative | strātus | strātūs |
Synonyms
- (bed-covering): strātum
Descendants
- → Catalan: estrat
- → English: stratus
- → Finnish: stratus
- Old Occitan: estrat
- Catalan: estrat
- → Portuguese: estrato
- Romanian: strat
- → Spanish: estrato
- Sicilian: stratu
Noun
strātūs
- inflection of strātus:
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural
- genitive singular
References
- “stratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “stratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- stratus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- stratus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) a street, a made road: via strata
- (ambiguous) all have perished by the sword: omnia strata sunt ferro
- (ambiguous) a street, a made road: via strata
- “stratus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “stratus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
Romanian
Etymology
From French stratus, from Latin stratus.
Noun
stratus m (uncountable)
- stratus
Declension
declension of stratus (singular only)
| singular | ||
|---|---|---|
| m gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
| nominative/accusative | (un) stratus | stratusul |
| genitive/dative | (unui) stratus | stratusului |
| vocative | stratusule | |