stīrĭa

ae, f.

cf. stilla; Engl. tear

I. a frozen drop; an ice-drop, ice-drop, icicle (poet. and in post-Aug. prose), Verg. G. 3, 366; so too Plin. 34, 12, 32, § 124; Mart. 7, 37, 5; Claud. B. Get. 327; Tert. Pall. 4.

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