sterne

• IPA^(key): /stɛʁn/
• Homophone: sternes

sterne f (plural sternes)

1. tern (bird)

• “sterne” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• entres, entrés
• Ernest
• rentes, rentés
• ternes

sterne f

1. plural of sterna

sterne

1. second-person singular present active imperative of sternō

• stern, starne, starn, sterrne, steorrne

From Old Norse stjarna, from Proto-Germanic *sternǭ (“star”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr (“star”).

sterne (plural sternes)

1. A luminous body visible in the sky; a star or planet.
2. The shape of a star.

• sterre
• tungol
• planete

• sterne of þe see
• sterne of sternes
• sterneleme
• blasynge sterne
• day sterne
• even sterne
• lode sterne
• se sterne

• English: starn
• Scots: starn

• “sterne (n.1)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 August 2018.