stilla

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɪtla/
• Rhymes: -ɪtla

stilla (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative stillti, supine stillt)

1. (transitive) to calm, to still
2. (transitive) to adjust
3. (transitive, of a musical instrument) to tune
4. (reflexive) to calm down

• (to tune (an instrument)): stemma

• stilling

From Latin stilla

stilla f (plural stille)

1. drop

stilla

1. third-person singular present indicative of stillare
2. second-person singular imperative of stillare

• stalli

Probably a diminutive from stīria (“frozen drop, icicle”), compare Ancient Greek στίλη (stílē, “minute particle, a drop”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈstiːl.la/

stīlla f (genitive stīllae); first declension

1. a drop (of a liquid)
2. (figuratively) a drop, small quantity

First declension.

• Italian: stilla
• English: still (as in whisky still)

• stilla in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• stilla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “stī̆lla”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 587

• istilla (before the article)

From Sicilian stidda, from Latin stēlla. The plural is formed according to a pattern common in inherited words.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɪllɐ/

stilla f (plural stilel)

1. star

• IPA^(key): /²stɪlːɑ/

stilla f

1. definite singular of stille

• stille
• stella
• stelle

stilla (present tense stiller, past tense stilte, past participle stilt, present participle stillande, imperative still)

1. to place, put, position

   Eg stiller denne vasen på bordet.

   I place this vase on the table.

2. to assume a certain position, literally or figuratively

   Still deg inn til veggen!

   Stand against the wall!

   Ho stilte til val.

   She ran for office.

   Han stilte seg tvilande til dette.

   He doubted this (He assumed a doubting position towards this)

   Eg stiller på fem minutt om du treng meg.

   I will be there in five minutes if you need me.

From Old Norse stilla. Akin to English still.

• stille

stilla (present tense stiller, past tense stilte, past participle stilt, present participle stillande, imperative still)

1. to stop, alleviate (only in certain contexts, or poetic/archaic)

   Eg stilte den verste svolten med eit eple.

   I alleviated the worst of my hunger with an apple.

• “stilla” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Norse stilla, from Proto-Germanic *stillijaną.

stilla

1. to calm
2. to stop a flow (of water)
3. to suppress
4. to avert, prevent

• Swedish: stilla

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From Middle Low German stille, from Old Saxon stilli, from Proto-Germanic *stillijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *stel-.

stilla

1. still, calm

• Stilla havet

From Old Swedish stilla, from Old Norse stilla, from Proto-Germanic *stillijaną.

stilla (present stillar, preterite stillade, supine stillat, imperative stilla)

1. to still
2. to make quiet

• stillare