stratus

Borrowed from Latin stratus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɹeɪtəs/, /ˈstɹætəs/
• Rhymes: -eɪtəs
• Hyphenation: stra‧tus

stratus (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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstrɑtus/, [ˈs̠t̪rɑt̪us̠]
• Hyphenation: stra‧tus

stratus

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

Perfect passive participle of sternō (“spread out”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈstraː.tus/, [ˈstraː.tʊs]

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. nominative plural of strātus
2. genitive singular of strātus
3. accusative plural of strātus
4. vocative plural of strātus

• 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, 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