aster
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin aster, from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr). Doublet of star, stella, étoile, and estoile.
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NounEdit
aster (plural asters)
- Any of several plants of the genus Aster; one of its flowers.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Penguin 2011, p.120:
- On a sunny September morning, with the trees still green, but the asters and fleabanes already taking over in ditch and dalk, Van set out for Ladoga, N.A.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Penguin 2011, p.120:
- (biology) A star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell.
- (obsolete) A star.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.94:
- by the changes and enter-caprings of which, the revolutions, motions, cadences, and carrols of the asters [translating astres] and planets are caused and transported.
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EtymologyEdit
From English aster, from Latin aster, from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr).
PronunciationEdit
- Hyphenation: as‧ter
NounEdit
aster
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin astēr, from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr). Named after the flower's semblance to a star.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
aster f (plural asters, diminutive astertje n)
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
aster m (plural asters)
- aster (flowering plant)
Further readingEdit
- “aster”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr). See also Latin astrum and the inherited stēlla.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
astēr m (genitive asteris); third declension
DeclensionEdit
Third-declension noun (Greek-type, variant with nominative singular in -ēr).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | astēr | asterēs |
Genitive | asteris | asterum |
Dative | asterī | asteribus |
Accusative | astera asterem |
asterēs |
Ablative | astere | asteribus |
Vocative | astēr | asterēs |
DescendantsEdit
- → English: aster
- Translingual: Aster, Cometaster, Thalassianthus aster
ReferencesEdit
- “aster”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- aster in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “aster”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[1]
Mauritian CreoleEdit
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Etymology 1Edit
From French à cette heure (“at this hour”).
AdverbEdit
aster
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
aster
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from New Latin Astēr, from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓στήρ (astḗr), from Proto-Hellenic *astḗr, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr. Doublet of Stella.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
aster m inan
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RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
aster m (plural asteri)