castor
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɑːs.tə/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkæs.tɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɑːstə(ɹ), -æstə(ɹ)
- Homophone: caster
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle French castor, from Old French castor (“beaver”), from Latin castor (“beaver”), from Ancient Greek κάστωρ (kástōr), from Doric Greek κάστον (káston, “wood”).
Noun edit
castor (countable and uncountable, plural castors)
- A hat made from the fur of the beaver.
- 1826, [Walter Scott], chapter V, in Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC, page 135:
- I have been always noted for the jaunty manner in which I wear my castor— […]
- A heavy quality of broadcloth for overcoats.
- Castoreum (bitter exudate of mature beavers).
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Ariadne, of Africa and Asia.
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Etymology 2 edit
Named from Greek mythology; see Castor and Pollux. The name pollux was given to another mineral with which it was always found.
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castor (uncountable)
- (mineralogy) A variety of petalite found in Elba.
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Etymology 3 edit
Alternative spelling of caster, via cast + -or (the Latinate varient of -er).
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castor (plural castors)
- (especially UK) Alternative spelling of caster, especially in its senses
- A pivoting roller attached to the bottom of furniture to allow it to be moved.
- A container with a perforated cap for sprinkling its contents, especially salt, pepper, etc.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Ramadan”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 92:
- Mrs. Hussey soon appeared, with a mustard-pot in one hand and a vinegar-cruet in the other, having just broken away from the occupation of attending to the castors, and scolding her little black boy meantime.
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References edit
“castor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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Asturian edit
Noun edit
castor m (plural castores)
Catalan edit
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castor m (plural castors)
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- “castor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French castor, from Old French castor, borrowed from Latin castor, itself from Ancient Greek κάστωρ (kástōr). Though borrowed into French early on, the word remained a more learned term at first, while bièvre was the popular synonym.
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Noun edit
castor m (plural castors)
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Further reading edit
- “castor”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Galician edit
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castor m (plural castores)
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- “castor” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek κάστωρ (kástōr), from Doric Greek κάστον (káston, “wood”). See also Sanskrit कस्तूरी (kastūrī, “musk”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkas.tor/, [ˈkäs̠t̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkas.tor/, [ˈkäst̪or]
Noun edit
castor m (genitive castoris); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | castor | castorēs |
Genitive | castoris | castorum |
Dative | castorī | castoribus |
Accusative | castorem | castorēs |
Ablative | castore | castoribus |
Vocative | castor | castorēs |
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- “castor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “castor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- castor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- castor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “castor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “castor”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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Norman edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French castor, from Latin castor (“beaver”).
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castor m (plural castors)
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Latin castōrem (“beaver”).
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- Hyphenation: cas‧tor
Noun edit
castor m (plural castores)
Further reading edit
- “castor” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French castor and its source, Latin castor, from Ancient Greek κάστωρ (kástōr).
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castor m (plural castori)
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singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) castor | castorul | (niște) castori | castorii |
genitive/dative | (unui) castor | castorului | (unor) castori | castorilor |
vocative | castorule | castorilor |
Further reading edit
- castor in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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castor m (plural castores)
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- “castor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014