Where does “stratus” come from?

Stratus comes from Latin stratus, the past participle of sterno meaning to spread or lay out, derived from Proto-Indo-European sterh₃- and ster- meaning to spread or extend.

stratus (English): A principal, low-level cloud type in the form of...

Definitions

  1. A principal, low-level cloud type in the form of...

Ancestry of “stratus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinstrātus—
2Proto-Celticstratosvalley
3Proto-Indo-Europeanstr̥h₃tósstretched, spread
4Proto-Indo-European-tósCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems

Words derived from “stratus”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tós →Every word from Proto-Indo-European str̥h₃tós →Every word from Proto-Celtic stratos →