strata

See also: stratą, and stratã

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɹeɪtə/, /ˈstɹætə/, /ˈstɹɑːtə/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪtə, -ætə, -ɑːtə

Etymology 1

Noun

strata

1. plural of stratum
2. (proscribed) A stratum.

Derived terms

• stratabound

Etymology 2

From strata title.

Noun

strata (plural stratas)

1. (British Columbia) Condominium unit, condominium building, condominium title.

   Learn more about the renting in stratas; some stratas may have rental restriction bylaws. There are also legal requirements for buying and selling strata properties.

Etymology 3

The bread is layered with the filling to produce strata (layers).

Noun

strata (plural stratas)

1. (US, cooking) A kind of layered casserole dish in American cuisine.
   • 2014, Slow Cooking for Two (Mendocino Press)

     Egg dishes, stratas, and casserole recipes are delicious for breakfast and work well in the slow cooker.

Alternative forms

• stratta

See also

• Strata Florida

Anagrams

• Attars, Sattar, Tatars, Tatras, astart, attars

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch strata, from Latin strata. Doublet of setrat and stratum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈstrata]
• Hyphenation: stra‧ta

Noun

strata (first-person possessive strataku, second-person possessive stratamu, third-person possessive stratanya)

1. stratum,
   1. one of several parallel horizontal layers of material arranged one on top of another.

      Synonyms: lapisan, stratum

   2. a class of society composed of people with similar social, cultural, or economic status.
2. higher education educational level

Affixed terms

• berstrata
• menstratakan
• penstrataan

 

Compounds

• strata dua
• strata satu
• strata tiga

 

Related terms

• setrat
• stratifikasi
• stratum

 

Further reading

• “strata” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Interlingua

Noun

strata (plural stratas)

1. road

Kashubian

Etymology

Deverbal from stracëc. Compare Polish strata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstra.ta/
• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: stra‧ta

Noun

strata f

1. loss (result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement)
2. (finance) loss (sum an entity loses on balance)
3. loss (something that has been destroyed or ruined)

Declension

Declension of strata

	singular	plural
nominative	strata	stratë
genitive	stratë	strat/stratów
dative	strace	stratóm
accusative	stratã	stratë
instrumental	stratą	stratama
locative	strace	stratach
vocative	strata/strato	stratë

Further reading

• Stefan Ramułt (1893) “strata”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), page 204
• Sychta, Bernard (1972) “strata”, in Słownik gwar kaszubskich (in Polish), volumes 5 (S – T), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 174
• Jan Trepczyk (1994) “strata”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “strata”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[1]
• “strata”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka, Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Latin

Etymology 1

An ellipsis of via strāta (“covered, stretched path”). Latter element from strātus, perfect passive participle of sternō (“spread out, extend”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈstraː.ta/, [ˈs̠t̪räːt̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈstra.ta/, [ˈst̪räːt̪ä]

Noun

strāta f (genitive strātae); first declension

1. a paved road

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	strāta	strātae
genitive	strātae	strātārum
dative	strātae	strātīs
accusative	strātam	strātās
ablative	strātā	strātīs
vocative	strāta	strātae

Descendants

• Italian: strada
• Neapolitan:

  Tarantino: strade

  Neapolitan: strata

• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: estrada
  • Occitan: estrada, estraia, estraa (Vivaro-Alpine), straa
• Old Galician-Portuguese: estrada, strada
  • Galician: estrada
  • Portuguese: estrada
    • Guinea-Bissau Creole: strada
    • Kabuverdianu: stráda
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: estrada
    • → Basque: estrata
• Piedmontese: stra
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: strade
  • Romansch: strada
• Sicilian: strata
• Venetan: strada
• → Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܐܣܛܪܛ (ʾesṭərāṭ)

  • → Arabic: صِرَاط (ṣirāṭ), سِرَاط (sirāṭ)
• → Middle Persian: [script needed] (slʾt' /⁠srāt⁠/, “way; street”)
• → Proto-West Germanic: *strātu (see there for further descendants)
• → Greek: στράτα (stráta)
  • Mariupol Greek: стра́та (stráta)
  • → Romanian: stradă

Etymology 2

Participle

strāta

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

Participle

strātā

1. ablative feminine singular of strātus

Etymology 3

Inflected form of strātum (“coverlet, blanket”).

Noun

strāta

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of strātum

References

• “strata”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• strata 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)
• strata in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) a street, a made road: via strata
    
  • (ambiguous) all have perished by the sword: omnia strata sunt ferro
    
• strata in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from English strata.

Noun

strata (plural strata-strata, informal 1st possessive strataku, 2nd possessive stratamu, 3rd possessive stratanya)

1. stratum:
   1. one of several parallel horizontal layers of material arranged one on top of another.
   2. a class of society composed of people with similar social, cultural, or economic status.
2. stratum: condominium unit, condominium building, condominium title

Further reading

• “strata” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *strātu, from Latin strāta.

Noun

strāta f

1. street, paved road

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: strâte
  • Dutch: straat (see there for further descendants)
  • Limburgish: sjtraot, straot

Further reading

• “strāta”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old Polish

Etymology

Deverbal from stracić. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /strata/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /strata/

Noun

strata f

1. (attested in Lesser Poland) doom; destruction
   • 1939 [end of the 14th century], Ryszard Ganszyniec, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Kubica, Ludwik Bernacki, editors, Psałterz florjański łacińsko-polsko-niemiecki‎^[4], Krakow: Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, z zasiłkiem Sejmu Śląskiego, pages 102, 4:

     Genz wyplaczuge ze ztraty (redimit de interitu) ziwot twoy

     [Jenż wypłacuje ze straty (redimit de interitu) żywot twój]

Related terms

adjectives

• stracony

 

nouns

• stracenie
• straceniec
• straćca

 

verbs

• stracić pf, stracać impf
• tracić impf

 

Descendants

• Polish: strata
• Silesian: strata

References

• Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “tracić”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
• Mańczak, Witold (2017) “tracić”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “strata”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *strātu, from Latin strāta.

Noun

strāta f

1. street, paved road

Declension

Declension of strāta (feminine a-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	strāta	strāta
accusative	strāta	strāta
genitive	strātō	strātanō
dative	strātu	strātum
instrumental	—	—

Descendants

• Middle Low German: strâte
  • German Low German: Straat, Stroot, (Westphalian) Straote
  • → North Frisian: struat, stroote, Straat

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish strata. By surface analysis, deverbal from stracić. Compare Kashubian strata.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈstra.ta/

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈstra.ta/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: stra‧ta

Noun

strata f

1. loss (result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement)

   Antonym: zysk

2. loss (death or separation of a person)
3. loss (total damage suffered by a military unit during military operations)
4. loss (result of unwanted reduction in amount of a material, heat, etc.)
5. loss (unwanted reduction of a specific type of value, e.g. points, by which the result of a sports game is measured)
6. loss (result of inadequately using something, especially pointlessly, e.g. of time)
7. (finance) loss (sum an entity loses on balance)
8. (obsolete) loss (destruction, collapse, ruin)

Declension

Declension of strata

	singular	plural
nominative	strata	straty
genitive	straty	strat
dative	stracie	stratom
accusative	stratę	straty
instrumental	stratą	stratami
locative	stracie	stratach
vocative	strato	straty

Derived terms

nouns

• strata moralna

 

proverbs

• mała strata, krótki żal

 

verbs

• spisać na straty pf, spisywać na strat impf

 

Further reading

• strata in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• strata in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “strata”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku
• “STRATA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku, (Can we date this quote?)
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “strata”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “strata”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “strata”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 446

Sicilian

Etymology

From Late Latin strāta (“paved road”), from Latin [via] strāta, feminine of strātus, perfect passive participle of sternō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʂɽata/, /ˈʂata/

Noun

strata f (plural strati)

1. road, way, street

Silesian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish strata. By surface analysis, deverbal from stracić.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstra.ta/
• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: stra‧ta

Noun

strata f

1. loss

Further reading

• strata in silling.org
• Henryk Jaroszewicz (2022) “strata”, in Zasady pisowni języka śląskiego (in Polish), Siedlce: Wydawnictwo Naukowe IKR[i]BL, page 136