Stern

• Sterne

• As a German and Jewish surname, from the noun Stern (“star”). This was also borrowed into various Slavic languages such as Serbo-Crotian and Slovenian.
• As an English surname, from the adjective stern.

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 stërne, from Old High German sterno, from Proto-West Germanic *sternō, from Proto-Germanic *sternǭ, *sternô, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

See also Dutch ster (“star”), Old English steorra (“star”) (Modern English star), Danish stjerne (“star”), Swedish stjärna (“star”), Icelandic stjarna (“star”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌽𐍉 (stairnō); also Latin stēlla (“star”), Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr, “star”) and Sanskrit तारा (tārā, “star”). Doublet of Aster and Star (“celebrity”).

• 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.

   • 1919, Aleksey Remizov, translated by Arthur Luther, Legenden und Geschichten‎^[1] (fiction), Leipzig: Kurt Wolff, →ISBN:

     Und die Sterne gingen mit dem nächtlichen Dunkel, der Morgen graute, […]

     And the stars went away with the dark of the night, the morning dawned, […]

   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 someone 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^[2] (in German)
• “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.

From Middle High German stërne, from Old High German sterno.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃtɛn/
• Rhymes: -ɛn
• Syllabification: Stern

Stern m (plural Stern, diminutive Sternche)

1. star

Stern f (plural Sterne)

1. forehead

• Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “Stern”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch

Borrowed from German Stern.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɛrn/
• 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^[3] (in Polish)

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