estela

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *astella, from assula. Cognate with Spanish astilla, Catalan estella, French attelle.

• IPA^(key): /esˈtɛla̝/

estela f (plural estelas)

1. splinter

   Synonym: racha

2. billet, sliver

   Synonyms: acha, cavaco

Borrowed from Latin stēla, from Ancient Greek στήλη (stḗlē).

• IPA^(key): /esˈtɛla̝/

estela f (plural estelas)

1. stela

• “estela” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “estela” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “estela” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• estiala, estello (Provence)

From Latin stēlla, Proto-Italic *stērolā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

estela f (plural estelas)

1. star (celestial body)

• estela on the Occitan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^oc

From Latin aestuāria, inflected form of aestuārium (“tidal basin, agitation of water”), from aestus (“tide”).

estela f (plural estelas)

1. wake (track left behind a boat)
2. slipstream
3. trail
4. stela (monument)