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Aster incisus (2)
 
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Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈæstɚ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -æstɚ

Noun edit

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, published 2011, page 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.

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Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

  • Hyphenation: as‧ter

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aster

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

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

Etymology edit

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

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aster f (plural asters, diminutive astertje n)

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

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aster m (plural asters)

  1. aster (flowering plant)

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Latin edit

Etymology edit

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

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Noun edit

astēr m (genitive asteris); third declension

  1. A star
    Synonyms: astrum, stēlla, sīdus
  2. Aster amellus (Italian starwort)

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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 edit

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

References edit

  • 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]

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Etymology 1 edit

From French à cette heure (at this hour).

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aster

  1. now
  2. at this moment

Etymology 2 edit

From French acheteur.

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aster

  1. buyer

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astry

Etymology edit

Learned borrowing from New Latin Astēr. Doublet of Stela and Stella.

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aster m inan

  1. aster (any plant of the genus Aster)

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Further reading edit

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

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French aster.

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aster m (plural asteri)

  1. aster

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