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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈæstɚ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -æstɚ

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, 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.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes , London: Val 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 and planets are caused and transported.

Derived terms

Related terms

• astro-

Translations

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

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aster

Wikipedia ^nl

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑs.tər/

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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.

Derived terms

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /as.tɛʁ/

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Noun

aster m (plural asters)

1. aster (flowering plant)

Further reading

• “aster”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈas.teːr/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈas.ter/,

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).

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

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

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

aster

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin Astēr. Doublet of Stela and 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

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

References

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