Stella

From Latin stēlla (“star”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɛlə/

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• Rhymes: -ɛlə
• Homophones: stella, stellar (in non-rhotic accents), steller (in non-rhotic accents), Steller (in non-rhotic accents)
• Hyphenation: Stel‧la

Stella

1. A female given name from Latin.
   • 1933, Eleanor Farjeon, “Girls' Names”, in Over the Garden Wall, Faber and Faber, page 91:

     What lovely names for girls there are! / There's Stella like the Evening Star,

2. Ellipsis of Stella Artois., a brand of beer; or a serving of such.

   I'm going to have a few Stellas tonight

   • 2006, “Sheila”, performed by Jamie T:

     Sheila goes out with her mate Stella / It gets poured all over her fella

3. A town in South Africa.
4. A village in Missouri.
5. A village in Nebraska.
6. A town in Wisconsin.
7. A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ1763). [1]
8. (US, numismatics) A gold coin with a face value of $4.00 proposed for use in the United States in the 19th century.

• stella
• Stella Maris

Stella (plural Stellas)

1. (Jamaica, slang, derogatory) A black woman who visits Jamaica as a sex tourist; named after the protagonist of How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998).

   Coordinate term: milk bottle

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   • 2018, Bianca C. Williams, The Pursuit of Happiness‎, Duke University Press, →ISBN:

     They often come thinking that Jamaican women are not going to like them, because they have heard from others in the United States that Jamaican women have a bad attitude and are upset that these “Stellas” are taking all of their men.

• all set, sallet

From Latin stella.

Stella

1. a female given name

Ultimately from Latin stella.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɛ.laː/

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• Hyphenation: Stel‧la
• Rhymes: -ɛlaː

Stella f

1. a female given name from Latin

From Latin stella.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstelːɑ/, [ˈstelːɑ]

Stella

1. a female given name

Stella f

1. a female given name

Matronymics

• son of Stella: Stelluson
• daughter of Stella: Stelludóttir

From Latin Stēlla.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstelːɑ/, [ˈs̠te̞lːɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -elːɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Stel‧la

Stella

1. a female given name

• Stella is the 222^nd most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 2,603 female individuals (and as a middle name to 419 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

From Latin stella.

Stella

1. a female given name

Ultimately from Latin stella (“star”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɛlːa/

  Rhymes: -ɛlːa

  Homophone: stella

Stella f

1. a female given name
2. A female nickname
3. (colloquial) Stella Artois beer

As a nickname, this name is frequently used for women with various unrelated and dissimilar given names.

From Latin stella.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstel.la/
• Rhymes: -ella
• Hyphenation: Stél‧la

Stella f

1. a female given name
2. A commune of Liguria
3. A river in Friuli-Venezia Giulia

• stalle

From stēlla (“star”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsteːl.la/, [ˈs̠t̪eːlːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈstel.la/, [ˈst̪ɛlːä]

Stēlla m sg (genitive Stēllae); first declension

1. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Lucius Arruntius Stella, a Roman senator

First-declension noun, singular only.

• Stella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From Latin stella. First recorded as a Swedish name in 1857.

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Stella c (genitive Stellas)

1. a female given name