stratus

Borrowed from Latin stratus. Doublet of strath.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɹeɪtəs/, /ˈstɹætəs/

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• Rhymes: -eɪtəs
• Hyphenation: stra‧tus

stratus (usually uncountable, plural strati)

1. (meteorology) A principal, low-level cloud type in the form of a gray layer with a rather uniform base, usually not associated with precipitation, and capable of producing corona phenomena and a weak, uniform luminance; abbreviated St.

Borrowed from Latin stratus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstrɑtus/, [ˈs̠trɑ̝t̪us̠]
• Rhymes: -ɑtus
• Syllabification^(key): stra‧tus

stratus

1. Synonym of sumupilvi (“stratus (cloud)”)

Perfect passive participle of sternō (“spread out”). Diachronically, from Proto-Italic *strātos, from Proto-Indo-European *str̥h₃tós. Cognate with Proto-Celtic *stratos (“valley”), ealier *“spread-out land”, Ancient Greek στρωτός (strōtós, “bestrewn, spread, laid out; smooth”), στρατός (stratós, “army, war band”), and Sanskrit स्तृत (stṛtá, “bestrewn, spread (out); extended, spacious; covered; overthrown”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈstraː.tus/, [ˈs̠t̪räːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈstra.tus/, [ˈst̪räːt̪us]

strātus (feminine strāta, neuter strātum); first/second-declension participle

1. spread, stretched out, spread out, having been spread out
2. (rare) calmed, stilled, moderated, having been calmed
3. covered, spread with, scattered with, bestrewn with, having been covered (with)
   1. (of a road, path) paved, covered, having been paved
4. stretched on the ground, cast down, struck down, prostrated, having been struck down
   1. (by extension) knocked to the ground, demolished, razed, levelled, flattened, having been razed

First/second-declension adjective.

strātus m (genitive strātūs); fourth declension

1. the act of spreading, strewing
2. a bed-covering, coverlet, quilt, blanket
3. vocative singular of strātus

Fourth-declension noun.

• (bed-covering): strātum

strātūs

1. inflection of strātus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural
   2. genitive singular

• “stratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “stratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• stratus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• stratus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) a street, a made road: via strata
    
  • (ambiguous) all have perished by the sword: omnia strata sunt ferro
    
• “stratus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “stratus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Borrowed from French stratus, from Latin stratus.

stratus m (uncountable)

1. stratus