strava

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sъtrava.

• IPA^(key): [ˈstrava]

strava f

1. diet (food a person or animal consumes)
2. board, meals (regular meals)

   Synonym: stravování

• strava in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• strava in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• strava in Internetová jazyková příručka

• straba

Often claimed to be from Proto-Germanic *strawjaną (“to strew”). But if the sense is indeed "funeral feast", a derivation from Proto-Slavic *sъtrava (“food”) is much more probable.

strava f (genitive stravae); first declension

1. a rite performed by the Huns, perhaps a monument of victory built of captured arms, or a funeral feast

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First-declension noun.

• “strava”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• strava in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• The World of the Huns: Studies in Their History and Culture. By J. Otto Maenchen-Helfen, edited by Max Knight. 1973, p. 425f., quoting the Getica (in translation)

Related to strȃh.

• IPA^(key): /strǎːʋa/
• Hyphenation: stra‧va

stráva f (Cyrillic spelling стра́ва)

1. horror, dread