stiva

See also: stīva and stīvā

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsti.va/
• Rhymes: -iva
• Hyphenation: stì‧va

Etymology 1

Noun

stiva f (plural stive)

1. (nautical, aviation) hold (of a ship or aircraft)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

stiva

1. inflection of stivare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• stavi, svita, vasti, vista

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain; perhaps connected with Latin stilus (“a pointed instrument”) and containing the root *stey- (“sharp object”) also contained in Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp, to sting”), whence Latin stinguō, Hittite [script needed] (tekan, “hoe”), English stick. Another possible connection is Avestan 𐬯𐬙𐬀𐬉𐬭𐬀 (staēra), 𐬙𐬀𐬉𐬭𐬀 m (taēra, “mountaintop”).

Noun

stīva f (genitive stīvae); first declension

1. handle of the plough

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	stīva	stīvae
genitive	stīvae	stīvārum
dative	stīvae	stīvīs
accusative	stīvam	stīvās
ablative	stīvā	stīvīs
vocative	stīva	stīvae

Derived terms

• stīvārius

Descendants

• Portuguese: esteva
• Spanish: esteva

References

• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “stilus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 587

Further reading

• “stiva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “stiva”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• stiva in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• stiva in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “stiva”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers