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

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

Hipparchus cites a passage from the sphere of Eudoxus, in which he says, Est vero stella quædam in eodem consistens loco, quæ quidem polus est mundi.

From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by Blake, John F.

Quum vitiorum tempestas Turbabat omnes semitas, Apparuisti, Deitas, Velut stella salutaris In naufragiis amaris....

From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Baudelaire, Charles

C�sariem C�sar tibi si natura negauit, Hanc Willielme tibi stella comata dedit.

From The Lives of the III Normans, Kings of England: William the First, William the Second, Henrie the First by Hayward, John