Noun: stealth
| Singular | stealth |
| Plural | stealths |
Sample Sentences
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Claudio.[...] But it chances
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The stealth of our most mutuall entertainment
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With Character too grosse, is writ on Iuliet. [c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:]
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[The King] thinks it fit[...] that restitution according to this order be made to the petitioners for stealths committed upon them last winter (273). [1877, George Hill, An Historical Account of the Plantation in Ulster at the Commencement of the Seventeenth Century, M'Caw, Stevenson & Orr, page 352:]
Nouns inflected like stealth
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English stelthe, from Old English stǣlþ, from Proto-Germanic *stēliþō, to Proto-Germanic *stelaną (“to steal, to sneak”) + *-iþō, equivalent to steal + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Compare Old English stalu (“theft, stealth”), Old High German stāla (“theft”), German Diebstahl (“theft”). See: Middle English Nouns '
stelthe', Old English Nouns '
stalu', German Nouns '
Diebstahl'.
Verbs referencing "stealth"
Russian Nouns
стелс.