sterni
Esperanto
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sternō (“I spread, stretch out, spread out”). Compare Italian sternere, Friulian stierni.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈsterni]
- Audio:
(file) - Rhymes: -erni
- Hyphenation: ster‧ni
Verb
sterni (present sternas, past sternis, future sternos, conditional sternus, volitive sternu)
- (transitive) to spread out, to stretch out, to extend (in horizontal direction)
- Synonyms: kuŝigi, etendi
- Coordinate terms: malvolvi, elvolvi
- La aglo sternis siajn flugilojn kaj komencis flugi al sia nesto.
- The eagle spread out its wings and began to fly toward its eyrie.
- La knabineto sternis la brakojn por brakumi min.
- The little girl stretched out her arms to hug me.
- 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.
Conjugation
Conjugation of sterni
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Derived terms
- sternaĵo
Latin
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