sterni
Esperanto
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sternō (“I spread, stretch out, spread out”). Compare Italian sternere, Friulian stierni.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈsterni]
- Rhymes: -erni
- Hyphenation: ster‧ni
Verb
sterni (present sternas, past sternis, future sternos, conditional sternus, volitive sternu)
- to spread, to stretch out (in horizontal direction)
- 1907, Kabe, chapter 24, in La Faraono, part 2, Hachette, translation of Faraon by Bolesław Prus:
- Ĉe la subiro de la suno la vojaĝantoj venis al alta monteto, de kies supro sin sternis antaŭ ili eksterordinara pentraĵo.
- With the sunrise, the travelers arrived at a high hill, from the top of which an extraordinary painting spread in front of them.
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Conjugation
Conjugation of sterni
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Latin
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