stilla

Icelandic

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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

Conjugation

stillast — mediopassive voice (miðmynd)
infinitive
(nafnháttur)		 að stillast
supine
(sagnbót)		 stillst
present participle
(lýsingarháttur nútíðar)		 stillandist **
** the mediopassive present participle is extremely rare and normally not used; it is never used attributively or predicatively, only for explicatory subclauses
indicative
(framsöguháttur)		 subjunctive
(viðtengingarháttur)
present
(nútíð)		 ég stillist við stillumst present
(nútíð)		 ég stillist við stillumst
þú stillist þið stillist þú stillist þið stillist
hann, hún, það stillist þeir, þær, þau stillast hann, hún, það stillist þeir, þær, þau stillist
past
(þátíð)		 ég stilltist við stilltumst past
(þátíð)		 ég stilltist við stilltumst
þú stilltist þið stilltust þú stilltist þið stilltust
hann, hún, það stilltist þeir, þær, þau stilltust hann, hún, það stilltist þeir, þær, þau stilltust
imperative
(boðháttur)		 stillst (þú) stillist (þið)
Forms with appended personal pronoun
stillstu stillisti *
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.

Synonyms

  • (to tune (an instrument)): stemma

Derived terms

Italian

Etymology

From Latin stilla

Noun

stilla f (plural stille)

  1. drop

Verb

stilla

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

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive from stīria (“frozen drop, icicle”), possibly ultimately from Ancient Greek στίλη (stílē, “minute particle, a drop”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈstil.la/, [ˈstɪl.la]

Noun

stilla f (genitive stillae); first declension

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

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative stilla stillae
genitive stillae stillārum
dative stillae stillīs
accusative stillam stillās
ablative stillā stillīs
vocative stilla stillae

Derived terms

  • stillārium
  • stillātim
  • stillanter
  • stillātīcius
  • stillātiō

Descendants

References

  • 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

Maltese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstɪllɐ/

Noun

stilla f (plural stilel)

  1. star

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²stɪlːɑ/

Etymology 1

Noun

stilla f

  1. definite singular of stille

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Verb

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.

Etymology 3

From Old Norse stilla. Akin to English still.

Alternative forms

Verb

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.

References

Old Swedish

Etymology

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

Verb

stilla

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

Conjugation

Descendants

Swedish

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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

Adjective

stilla

  1. still, calm

Etymology 2

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

Verb

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

  1. to still
  2. to make quiet
Conjugation
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