sterlet

From Russian сте́рлядь (stérljadʹ).

sterlet (plural sterlets)

1. A smaller, common Eurasian sturgeon, of the species Acipenser ruthenus.
   • 1904 [1878], chapter 9, in Leo Wiener, transl., Anna Karenina, Boston: D. Estes & Company, translation of Анна Каренина (Anna Karenina) by Leo Tolstoy, part 4:

     The old prince sat in silence, looking with his glistening little eyes sidewise at Karénin, and Stepán Arkádevich understood that he had concocted some witticism to hurl at the statesman, to whom they were invited as to a sterlet.

• Stelter, Stetler, letters, lettres, settler, tetrels, trestle

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sterlet m (plural sterlets)

1. sterlet

• “sterlet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

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• IPA^(key): /ˈstɛr.lɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛrlɛt
• Syllabification: ster‧let

sterlet m animal

1. sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus)

   Synonym: czeczuga

• “sterlet”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[1] (in Polish)
• sterlet in PWN's encyclopedia