stern

(Anglès)

Adj

1. Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
2. Grim and forbidding in appearance.

Noun

1. The rear part (after end) of a ship or other vessel.
2. (figuratively) The post of management or direction.
3. The hinder part of anything.
4. The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.

Verb

1. (ambitransitive, obsolete) To steer, to direct the course of (a ship).
2. (ambitransitive) To propel or move backward or stern-first in the water.

Noun

A bird, the black tern.

Oposat a

bow, stem, forestem, fore, prow, prore

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/stɜːn/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: stern

Heretat de anglès antic: styrne

Cognat amb escocès: stern

Cognat amb alt alemany antic: stornēn

Cognat amb neerlandès: stuurs

Cognat amb suec: stursk

In summary

From Middle English stern, sterne, sturne, from Old English styrne (“stern, grave, strict, austere, hard, severe, cruel”), from Proto-Germanic *sturnijaz (“angry, astonished, shocked”), from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“rigid, stiff”). Cognate with Scots stern (“bold, courageous, fierce, resolute”), Old High German stornēn (“to be astonished”), Dutch stuurs (“glum, austere”), Swedish stursk (“insolent”).

Conceptes

popa

cul

sever

implacable

del darrere

terç de darrere

pandero

natges

paner

🧺

tafanari

darrere

inexorable

Sinònims

severe

strict

harsh

austere

grim

poop

💩

serious

rigorous

rear

tail

hard

stringent

fanny

buttocks

ass

🍑

tooshie

arse

butt

stark

backside

tush

tail end

nates

keister

bum

buns

tense

hindquarters

bottom

rear end

derriere

grave

🪦

rump

hind end

behind

solemn

seat

💺

poopdeck

posterior

inexorable

prat

sharp

fundament

can

firm

tough

stiff

back

🔙

strained

exacting

Traduccions

poupe

💩

popa

poppa

achtersteven

severo

popa

Heck

sévère

streng

severo

rufa

sedere

🪑

streng

postérieur

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