costar

From co- +‎ star.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊstɑː(ɹ)/

costar (plural costars)

1. (acting) a person who shares star billing

   The once famous actor objected to his costar having a bigger dressing room.

2. (acting) a person who slightly lacks the status to be considered a star

   Alas, always a costar but never a star.

costar (third-person singular simple present costars, present participle costarring, simple past and past participle costarred)

1. to perform with the billing of a costar.

   People thought his career was over but now he will get to costar on Broadway next month.

   • 2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎:

     Purchasing a snowplow transforms Homer into a new man. Mr. Burns' laziest employee suddenly becomes an ambitious self-starter who buys ad time on local television at 3:17 A.M (prime viewing hours, Homer gingerly volunteers, for everyone from alcoholics to the unemployable to garden-variety angry loners) and makes a homemade commercial costarring his family.

• Castor, Castro, Cators, Croats, acrost, actors, castor, scroat, scrota, tarocs

From Latin constāre.

costar (first-person singular indicative present costo, past participle costáu)

1. to cost (incur a charge, a price)

Inherited from Latin cōnstāre. Compare Occitan costar, French coûter, Spanish costar. Doublet of constar, a borrowing from Latin.

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

costar (first-person singular present costo, first-person singular preterite costí, past participle costat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/

1. to cost (have a given price)
   • 2009, Jean Grave, Les Aventures d'en Nono:

     Digues, mare, quant costarà un llibre de contes[?]

     Tell me, mother, how much does a story book cost?

2. to be very difficult

• “costar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old Occitan costar, from Latin constāre.

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costar

1. to cost

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Inherited from Old Spanish costar, from Latin cōnstāre. Doublet of constar, a borrowing.

• IPA^(key): /kosˈtaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: cos‧tar

costar (first-person singular present cuesto, first-person singular preterite costé, past participle costado)

1. to cost
2. to find something very difficult, to have a hard time with something

   Cuando estoy de pie, me cuesta respirar.

   When I'm standing, I find it hard to breathe.

   Le cuesta mucho pronunciar esa palabra.

   He has a really hard time pronouncing that word.

In the second sense, the subject and object roles are inverted relative to the English phrasing, as with gustar.

• “costar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

• gostar

From Latin constāre. Compare Italian costare.

costar

1. (intransitive) to cost

* Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.