Stern

• Sterne

Stern (plural Sterns)

1. A surname.

• 'rents, Ernst, Snert, nerts, rents, snert, terns

Borrowed from German Stern.

Stern ?

1. a surname from German

From Middle High German [Term?], from Old High German sterno, from Proto-Germanic *sternǭ, *sternô (compare Dutch ster (“star”), Old English steorra (“star”) (Modern English star), Danish stjerne (“star”), Swedish stjärna (“star”), Icelandic stjarna (“star”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌽𐍉 (stairnō)). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr. Further cognates include Latin stēlla (“star”), Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr, “star”) and Sanskrit तारा (tārā, “star”).

• IPA^(key): /ʃtɛʁn/, [ʃtɛʁn], [ʃtɛɐ̯n]
• Rhymes: -ɛʁn

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Stern m (strong, genitive Sternes or Sterns, plural Sterne, diminutive Sternchen n or Sternlein n)

1. a star; a small luminous dot that can be seen on the night sky
   • 1924, Friedrich Bernhard Störzner, Das weiße Männchen auf dem Kirchberge, in: Reinhardtswalder Sagenbüchlein, Buchhandlung Otto Schmidt, page 11:

     Droben am Himmel funkelten die Sterne in seltener Pracht.

     Up in the sky the stars sparkled in unusual magnificence.

   Morgenstern ― morning star

   Barnards Stern ― Barnard's Star

2. (astronomy) a star; the actual celestial body

   Synonyms: Gestirn n, Sonne f

3. (geometry, heraldry) a star, a mullet, or anything that resembles such an object

   fünfzackiger Stern ― five-pointed star

   Davidstern ― Star of David

   Sternenbanner ― stars and stripes (the flag of the USA)

   NATO-Stern ― NATO star

   der rote Stern ― the red star

4. a star; symbol used as a rating, e.g. for hotels, movies, etc.

   Fünf-Sterne-Hotel ― five-star hotel

5. (printing, often Sternchen) an asterisk (*)

   Synonym: Asterisk m

   • 2007, Klaus M. Rodewig, Amin Negm-Awad, Objective-C und Cocoa: Programmieren unter Apple Mac OS X, 2nd edition, page 83:

     Bei der Deklaration eines Zeigers kann der Stern (Asterisk) sowohl beim Namen der Variablen (int *zahl) als auch beim Datentyp (int* zahl) stehen.

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6. (figuratively, chiefly Sternchen) a star, starlet, celebrity, something or somebody popular

   Synonym: Star m

   ein Schlagerstern(chen) ― a schlager-music starlet

7. A term of endearment.
8. (meteorology) a stellar crystal, a snow crystal possessing the shape of a star

• In the diminutive, the predominant contemporary usage is to employ Sternlein in the sense of “luminous dot” and Sternchen in all other senses.

• Himmelskörper m

• Sonne f

• Planet m
• Sonne f

Stern m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Sterns or (with an article) Stern, feminine genitive Stern, plural Sterns)

1. a surname

• “Stern” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Stern” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Stern” in Duden online
• Stern on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “Stern” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.

• IPA^(key): /ʃtɛn/

Stern m (plural Stern, diminutive Sternche)

1. star

Stern f (plural Sterne)

1. forehead

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Borrowed from German Stern.

• IPA^(key): /stɛrn/
• Rhymes: -ɛrn
• Syllabification: Stern

Stern m pers

1. a male surname from German

Stern f (indeclinable)

1. a female surname from German

• Stern in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from German Stern.

Stern m or f by sense

1. a surname from German

Borrowed from German Stern.

Stern m or f by sense

1. a surname from German