stare

See also: Stare

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English staren, from Old English starian (“to stare”), from Proto-Germanic *starjaną, *starāną (“to be fixed, be rigid”), from Proto-Indo-European *stere-, *strē- (“strong, steady”). Cognate with Dutch staren (“to stare”), German starren (“to stare”), Norwegian stare (“to stare”), German starr (“stiff”). More at start.

Verb

stare (third-person singular simple present stares, present participle staring, simple past and past participle stared)

  1. (intransitive, construed with at) To look fixedly (at something).
    • 1749, John Cleland, “part 2”, in Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, London: G. Fenton, OCLC 13050889:
      Her sturdy stallion had now unbutton'd, and produced naked, stiff, and erect, that wonderful machine, which I had never seen before, and which, for the interest my own seat of pleasure began to take furiously in it, I star'd at with all the eyes I had
    • 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, OCLC 7780546; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., 55 Fifth Avenue, [1933], OCLC 2666860, page 0016:
      A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.
  2. To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, colour, or brilliancy.
    staring windows or colours
  3. (obsolete) To stand out; to project; to bristle.
    • William Shakespeare (c.1564–1616)
      Makest my blood cold, and my hair to stare.
    • John Mortimer (1656?-1736)
      Take off all the staring straws and jags in the hive.
Troponyms
  • gaze, to stare intently or earnestly
  • ogle, to stare covetously or amorously
Derived terms
Translations

Noun

stare (plural stares)

  1. A persistent gaze.
    the stares of astonished passers-by

Etymology 2

Old English [Term?], compare with Norwegian Nynorsk stare

Noun

stare (plural stares)

  1. (obsolete) A starling.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for stare in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

stare

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of staren

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin stāre, present active infinitive of stō, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsta.re/, [ˈstaː.re]
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  • Rhymes: -are

Verb

stare

  1. (intransitive) to stay, remain
    stare attenti (a) ― to pay attention (to)
    Starà a casa. ― He/she will stay at home.
  2. (intransitive, followed by a) to keep, stick
  3. (intransitive, followed by a gerund) to be doing something (present continuous)
    Sto andando via. ― I am leaving.
  4. (intransitive, followed by a) to be up to
    Sta a te decidere. ― It's up to you to decide.
  5. (intransitive, followed by per) to be about to
    Sto per andare via. ― I am about to leave.
  6. (intransitive, mathematics) to be to
    4 sta a 8 come 5 sta a 10. ― 4 is to 8 as 5 is to 10.
  7. (intransitive, regional) to live
    Mia sorella sta a Roma. ― My sister lives in Rome.

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Latin

Verb

stāre

  1. present active infinitive of stō

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstarɛ/, [ˈstarə]

Adjective

stare

  1. inflection of stary:
    1. nominative and accusative neuter singular
    2. nominative and accusative plural

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse stari.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²stɑːrə/

Noun

stare m (definite singular staren, indefinite plural starar, definite plural starane)

  1. a starling (a songbird, Sturnus vulgaris)

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References

Polish

Adjective

stare

  1. old (neuter form of stary)

Romanian

Etymology

From the verb sta.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -are

Noun

stare f (plural stări)

  1. status, standing, situation, position, condition

Derived terms

  • în stare

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Swedish

Noun

stare c

  1. starling (a bird)

Declension

Declension of stare 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative stare staren starar stararna
Genitive stares starens starars stararnas

Tarantino

Etymology

From Latin stāre, present active infinitive of stō, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-.

Verb

stare

  1. (intransitive) to stay, remain
  2. (intransitive) to be

Conjugation

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