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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin -aster (“little, petty, partial, incomplete”).
Suffix
-aster
- Used to form diminutive and pejorative nouns, labeling someone pretending to be what they are not.
- poet + -aster → poetaster (“unskilled poet”)
- critic + -aster → criticaster (“petty critic”)
- pillar + -aster → pilaster (“pillar that does not provide support”)
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- teras, earst, reast, treas., taser, setar, stare, TASer, arste, Stear, sater, stear, tares, Satre, tarse, Sater, arets, tears, resat, rates, Aerts, Aters, Tesar, 'earts, Taser
Latin
Etymology
From suffix originally forming Ancient Greek nouns from verbs ending in -άζειν (-ázein).
Pronunciation
Suffix
-aster (feminine -astra, neuter -astrum); first/second-declension suffix (nominative masculine singular in -er)
- suffix of nouns or adjectives, expressing half, partial, or incomplete resemblance to the root word meaning; hence in some cases may be pejorative.
- pater (“father”) + -aster → patraster (“father-in-law, step-father”)
Declension
First/second-declension suffix (nominative masculine singular in -er).
Derived terms
Descendants