Stellaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin stēlla (“star”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈstɛlə/
• 韻: -ɛlə
• (Indic) IPA: /ˈsʈɛlːa/
• 異形同音異義語: stella; stellar, steller, Steller (non-rhotic)
• ハイフネーション: Stel‧la

固有名詞

Stella

1. A female given name from Latin.
   • 1933, Eleanor Farjeon, “Girls' Names”, in Over the Garden Wall, Faber and Faber, page 91:

     What lovely names for girls there are! / There's Stella like the Evening Star,

2. Ellipsis of Stella Artois, a brand of beer.
   • 2006, “Sheila”, performed by Jamie T:

     Sheila goes out with her mate Stella / It gets poured all over her fella

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Stella.
3. A town in South Africa.
4. A village in Missouri.
5. A village in Nebraska.
6. A town in Wisconsin.
7. A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ1763).
8. (US, numismatics) A gold coin with a face value of $4.00 proposed for use in the United States in the 19th century.

関連する語

• stella
• Stella Maris

名詞

Stella (plural Stellas)

1. A serving of Stella Artois, a brand of beer.

   I'm going to have a few Stellas tonight.

2. (Jamaica, slang, derogatory) A black woman who visits Jamaica as a sex tourist; named after the protagonist of How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998).

   Coordinate term: milk bottle

   (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

   • 2018, Bianca C. Williams, The Pursuit of Happiness‎, Duke University Press, →ISBN:

     They often come thinking that Jamaican women are not going to like them, because they have heard from others in the United States that Jamaican women have a bad attitude and are upset that these “Stellas” are taking all of their men.

参照

アナグラム

• sallet, Tealls, all set

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈsteːl.la]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈst̪ɛl.la]

固有名詞

Stēlla m sg (genitive Stēllae); first declension

1. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Lucius Arruntius Stella, a Roman senator

語形変化

First-declension noun, singular only.

参照

• “Stella”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.