stella

¹ American  

[stel-uh] / ˈstɛl ə /

noun

1. a four-dollar pattern coin of the U.S. having a metal content based on the metric system, issued 1879–80: designed to be used as an international coin.

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Stella ² American  

[stel-uh] / ˈstɛl ə /

noun

1. Frank (Phillip), born 1936, U.S. painter.

2. Joseph, 1887–1946, U.S. painter, born in Italy.

3. a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “star.”

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Example Sentences

A comet – by virtue of its unpredictability as a stella errans – a wandering star – induced feelings of instability and possible apocalypse.

From The Guardian • Jan. 29, 2018

For Dante, Bernard is colui ch'abbelliva di Maria, come del sole stella mattutina, "he who drew light from Mary, as the morning star from the sun."

From The Story of Florence by Gardner, Edmund G.

Soon after this appeared a new star—the stella nova of 1604—not the one Tycho had seen—that was in 1572—but the same that Kepler was so much interested in.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Johnson, Rossiter

This sequell is granted by some of our adversaries, and they are the very words of noble Tycho, De nova stella lib.

From The Discovery of a World in the Moone Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet by Wilkins, John

This same yere, that is to say the yere of oure lord a mlccclxvij, in the monthe of March appered stella comata.

From A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Nicolas, Nicholas Harris, Sir