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a word so good at praise it borrowed a star's entire reputation

means Excellent or outstandingso good it deserves comparison to the stars; literally, of or relating to stars.

from From Latin stellaris, 'pertaining to a star,' built on stella, 'star.' That stella is an old, far-reaching roota likely cousin of the Greek aster (which gives us asterisk and astronomy) and even of English star itself, all possibly tracing back to a shared ancestor in the prehistoric parent tongue. The figurative leap from 'astronomical' to 'fantastic' is fairly modern: people simply found that pointing at the heavens was the highest praise available.

originfrom Latin stella, meaning star
stellar windstars constantly bleed plasma into space
stellar nurserygas clouds where new stars are born
color codea star's color reveals its temperature
stellar parallaxtiny star shifts measure cosmic distances
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