aster

See also: Aster, áster, åster, aster-, and -aster

English

Aster incisus (2)

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Latin aster, from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr). Doublet of star, stella, étoile, and estoile.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈæstə(ɹ)/

• Audio (UK)

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• Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)

Noun

aster (plural asters)

1. 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.

2. (biology) A star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell.
3. (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.

Related terms

• astro-

Translations

plant

• Bulgarian: богородичка (bogorodička), димитровче (dimitrovče)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 翠菊 (zh) (cuìjú), 紫菀 (zh) (zǐwǎn)

• Czech: hvězdnice f
• Finnish: asteri (fi), saunio (fi)
• French: aster (fr) f
• German: Aster (de) f
• Greek: αστέρας (el) m (astéras)

  Ancient: ἀστερίσκος m (asterískos)

• Hungarian: őszirózsa (hu)
• Indonesian: aster (id)
• Irish: astar m
• Italian: astro (it) m
• Japanese: 嫁菜 (よめな, yomena), ヨメナ (ja) (yomena), 紫苑 (ja) (shion), シオン (shion)
• Korean: 과꽃 (gwakkot)
• Polish: aster (pl) m
• Portuguese: áster m
• Romanian: aster (ro) m
• Russian: а́стра (ru) f (ástra)
• Spanish: aster m
• Swedish: aster (sv) c
• Turkish: yıldızpatı (tr)

star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell

• Finnish: asteri (fi)
• Portuguese: áster m
• Spanish: áster (es) m

Anagrams

• 'earts, Aters, Sater, Satre, TASer, Taser, Tesar, arets, arste, earst, rates, reast, resat, setar, stare, stear, tares, tarse, taser, tears, teras

Cebuano

Etymology

From English aster, from Latin aster, from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: as‧ter

Noun

aster

1. an aster; any of several plants of the genus Aster
2. the flower of these plants

Dutch

Twee asters bezocht door bijen. — Two asters tended by bees.

Etymology

From Latin astēr, from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr). Named after the flower's semblance to a star.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑs.tər/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: as‧ter
• Rhymes: -ɑstər

Noun

aster f (plural asters, diminutive astertje n)

1. aster, flowering plant of the genus Aster.
2. A flower from this plant.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /as.tɛʁ/

• Audio

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Noun

aster m (plural asters)

1. aster (flowering plant)

Further reading

• “aster”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr). See also Latin astrum and the inherited stēlla.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈas.teːr/, [ˈäs̠t̪eːr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈas.ter/, [ˈäst̪er]

Noun

astēr m (genitive asteris); third declension

1. A star

   Synonyms: astrum, stēlla, sīdus

2. Aster amellus (Italian starwort)

Declension

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

Descendants

• → English: aster
• Translingual: Aster, Cometaster, Thalassianthus aster

References

• “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 Creole

Alternative forms

• asterla

Etymology 1

From French à cette heure (“at this hour”).

Adverb

aster

1. now
2. at this moment

Etymology 2

From French acheteur.

Noun

aster

1. buyer

Polish

astry

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin Astēr, from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓στήρ (astḗr), from Proto-Hellenic *astḗr, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr. Doublet of Stella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈas.tɛr/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -astɛr
• Syllabification: as‧ter
• Homophone: Aster

Noun

aster m inan

1. aster (any plant of the genus Aster)

Declension

Declension of aster

	singular	plural
nominative	aster	astry
genitive	astra	astrów
dative	astrowi	astrom
accusative	aster/astra	astry
instrumental	astrem	astrami
locative	astrze	astrach
vocative	astrze	astry

Further reading

• aster in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• aster in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French aster.

Noun

aster m (plural asteri)

1. aster

Declension

Declension of aster

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) aster	asterul	(niște) asteri	asterii
genitive/dative	(unui) aster	asterului	(unor) asteri	asterilor
vocative	asterule		asterilor

References

• aster in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN