stratum (n.)

"horizontal layer," 1590s, from a Modern Latin special use of Latin stratum "thing spread out, coverlet, bedspread, horse-blanket; pavement," noun uses of neuter of stratus "prostrate, prone," past participle of sternere "to spread out, lay down, stretch out" (from nasalized form of PIE root *stere- "to spread").

also from 1590s

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strata (n.)

"horizontal layers," c. 1700, plural of stratum.

strath (n.)

"wide river valley between hills," 1530s, from Scottish, from Old Irish srath "wide river valley," from Old Celtic *s(t)rato-, from PIE root *stere- "to spread" (also the source of street and stratum). As in Strathmore "the Great Valley."

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stroma

1835 in anatomy, in reference to the substance of a part or organ, especially fibrous connective tissue, plural stromae, Modern Latin, from a special use of Latin stroma "bed covering," from Greek strōma "coverlet, covering, mattress; anything spread out for lying or sitting on"

substratum

"that which is laid or spread under," originally in theology and metaphysics, 1630s, from Modern Latin substratum (plural substrata), noun use of neuter singular past participle of Latin substernere "to spread underneath," from sub "under, below, beneath" (see sub-) + sternere "t

class

c. 1600, "group of students," in U.S. especially "number of pupils in a school or college of the same grade," from French classe (14c.), from Latin classis "a class, a division; army, fleet," especially "any one of the six orders into which Servius Tullius divided the Roman peopl

chow mein

become established since the Second World War, with the rise of the Chinese restaurant, chow mein belongs to an earlier stratum...

shift

of horses" (1708); perhaps also influenced by a North Sea Germanic cognate word (such as North Frisian skeft "division, stratum...

bed

The geological sense of "a thick layer, stratum" is from 1680s....

keep

The word prob. belonged primarily to the vulgar and non-literary stratum of the language; but it comes up suddenly into literary...

proletariat

also proletariate, "the lowest and poorest class," 1853, from French prolétariat, from Latin proletarius (see proletarian). In political economics, "indigent wage-earners, , the class of wage-workers dependent on daily or casual employment" from 1856. The Englished form proletary

market

early 12c., "a meeting at a fixed time for buying and selling livestock and provisions, an occasion on which goods are publicly exposed for sale and buyers assemble to purchase," from Old North French market "marketplace, trade, commerce" (Old French marchiet, Modern French march

horizon

late 14c., orisoun, from Old French orizon (14c., Modern French horizon), earlier orizonte (13c.), from Latin horizontem (nominative horizon), from Greek horizon (kyklos) "bounding (circle)," from horizein "bound, limit, divide, separate," from horos "boundary, landmark, marking

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