auster

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔːstɚ/, /ˈɒstɚ/

auster

1. Alternative letter-case form of Auster (“the south wind”)

• “auster”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Sauter, Uretas, Sutera, Atreus, sauter, Tauers, urates

Borrowed from Latin austērus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

auster (feminine austera, masculine plural austers, feminine plural austeres)

1. austere

• austerament

• austeritat

• “auster” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “auster”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “auster” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “auster” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Proto-Italic *austeros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwsteros, from *h₂ews- (“dawn”). Cognate with Latin aurōra, English east, German Ost.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯s.ter/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯s.ter/,

auster m (genitive austrī); second declension

1. the south wind
2. south (compass direction)

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

• (south wind): merīdiēs

• (antonym(s) of “south wind”): boreās, septentriō

• “auster”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “auster”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “auster”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “auster”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 25: Refonte Apaideutos–Azymus, page 1065

From Old Norse austr.

auster m (definite singular austeren, indefinite plural austrar, definite plural austrane)

1. an act of scooping up something
2. (amount of) water which should be drained from a boat

auster f (definite singular austra, indefinite plural austrer, definite plural austrene)

1. a big ladle

• ausa, ause (verb)

• “auster” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from French austère, from Latin austerus.

auster m or n (feminine singular austeră, masculine plural austeri, feminine and neuter plural austere)

1. austere

• austeritate