Deverbal fromstivare +-a.
stiva f (pluralstive)
- (nautical, aviation)hold (of a ship or aircraft)
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
stiva
- inflection ofstivare:
- third-personsingularpresentindicative
- second-personsingularimperative
Inherited fromLatinstiva.
stiva f (pluralstive)
- (agriculture)stilt(handle of a plough)
- Synonym:bure
Uncertain; perhaps connected withLatinstilus(“a pointed instrument”) and containing the root*stey-(“sharp object”) also contained inProto-Indo-European*(s)teyg-(“to be sharp, to sting”), whenceLatinstinguō,Hittite[script needed](tekan,“hoe”),Englishstick. Another possible connection isAvestan𐬯𐬙𐬀𐬉𐬭𐬀(staēra),𐬙𐬀𐬉𐬭𐬀 m(taēra,“mountaintop”).
stīva f (genitivestīvae);first declension
- handle of theplough
First-declension noun.
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “stilus”, inEtymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN,page587
- “stiva”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “stiva”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "stiva", in Charles du Fresne du Cange,Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “stiva”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “stiva”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
