Common Lexeme

star

Keywords: entertainment

Pronunciation (IPA): star 
Part of Speech: term noun verb 
Class: noxaj 
Forms: star 
Glosses: star (acting) 

Description:

The term 'star' was borrowed from English in the late early period and means 'star of the show' - essentially, a famous person or lead actor, or a metaphorically comparable person, or a person who has the qualities of such a person. It does not carry any astronomical baggage in Common, a literal star is referred to as 'sinéon.

As a verb, star is a semitransitive noxaj verb which takes an absolutive subject which is the star, and an optional dative indirect object which is a thing starred in. A prepositional phrase is not generally used to indicate a thing starred in as it would be in English.

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