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English
Etymology
From a- + stare.
Pronunciation
Adverb
astare (not comparable)
- Staring; amazed.
1902, Mary Johnston, chapter 9, in Audrey,, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 125:passing the long college all astare with windows
1968, Austin Clarke, chapter 19, in A Penny in the Clouds, Dublin: Moytura Press, published 1990, page 151:[…] the Man of the House and his wife greeted us, their children astare with wondering eyes.
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
astāre
- present active infinitive of astō
Tocharian B
Etymology
From Proto-Tocharian *āstäre, of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs- (“to burn”). Compare Tocharian A āştär.
Adjective
astare
- pure
Derived terms
Further reading
- Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 36-37
Zazaki
Noun
astare m
- Alternative form of estare