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See also: Appendix:Variations of "aster"

English

Etymology

From Latin astēr, from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr). Doublet of star; related to estoile, étoile, stella, and stelo.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈæs.tə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)

Noun

aster (plural asters)

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.
(biology) A star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell.
(obsolete) A star.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] 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 [translating astres] and planets are caused and transported.

Derived terms

terms derived from aster

Related terms

astro-

Descendants

→ Cebuano: aster
→ Esperanto: astero

Translations

plant

Bulgarian: богородичка (bogorodička), димитровче (dimitrovče)
Catalan: àster m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 翠菊 (zh) (cuìjú), 紫菀 (zh) (zǐwǎn)
Czech: hvězdnice f, astra (cs) f
Esperanto: astero
Finnish: asteri (fi), saunio (fi)
French: aster (fr) f
German: Aster (de) f
Greek: αστέρας (el) m (astéras)
Ancient Greek: ἀστερίσκος m (asterískos)
Hungarian: őszirózsa (hu)
Indonesian: aster (id)
Irish: astar m
Italian: astro (it) m
Japanese: 嫁菜 (ja) (よめな, yomena), ヨメナ (ja) (yomena), 紫苑 (ja) (shion), シオン (shion)
Korean: 과꽃 (gwakkot)
Polish: aster (pl) m
Portuguese: áster m
Romanian: aster (ro) m
Russian: а́стра (ru) f (ástra)
Spanish: aster m
Swedish: aster (sv) c
Turkish: yıldızpatı (tr)
Ukrainian: а́йстра (uk) f (ájstra)
Welsh: serenllys m, blodyn Mihangel (cy) m

star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell

Finnish: asteri (fi)
Portuguese: áster m
Spanish: áster (es) m

Aster argophyllus

Woiwurrung: ^{(please verify)} daal

Aster ramulosus

Woiwurrung: ^{(please verify)} boe-boe

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

Cebuano

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₁-der.

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr

Proto-Hellenic *astḗr

Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr)

Latin astēr

English asterder.

Cebuano aster

Derived from English aster, from Latin astēr, from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr).

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: as‧ter

Noun

aster

an aster; any of several plants of the genus Aster
the flower of these plants

Dutch

Twee *asters* bezocht door bijen. — Two *asters* tended by bees.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɑs.tər/
Audio: (file)
Hyphenation: as‧ter
Rhymes: -ɑstər

Noun

aster f (plural asters, diminutive astertje n)

aster, flowering plant of the genus Aster
a flower from this plant

Derived terms

French

Etymology

From Middle French aster, from Latin astēr, from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓στήρ (ăstḗr). Doublet of star.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /as.tɛʁ/
Audio (France (Lyon)): (file)
Audio (France (Somain)): (file)

Noun

aster m (plural asters)

aster (flowering plant)

Descendants

→ Romanian: aster

Indonesian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Dutch aster, from Latin astēr, from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr).

Pronunciation

(Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈastər/ [ˈas.t̪ər]
Rhymes: -astər
Syllabification: as‧ter

Noun

astêr (plural aster-aster)

(botany) aster, flowering plant of the genus Aster.
Synonyms: jimla, pikok

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

(Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈastɛr/ [ˈas.t̪ɛr]
Rhymes: -astɛr
Syllabification: as‧ter

Noun

astèr (plural aster-aster or para aster)

(military) syllabic abbreviation of asisten teritorial (“territorial assistant”)

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈas.teːr]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈas.ter]

Noun

astēr m (genitive asteris); third declension

A star
Synonyms: astrum, stēlla, sīdus
Aster amellus (Italian starwort)

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, variant with nominative singular in -ēr).

	singular	plural
nominative	astēr	asterēs
genitive	asteris	asterum
dative	asterī	asteribus
accusative	astera asterem	asterēs
ablative	astere	asteribus
vocative	astēr	asterēs

Descendants

→ English: aster
- → Cebuano: aster
- → Esperanto: astero
→ English: aster-
→ Dutch: aster
→ German: Aster
- → Esperanto: astero
- → Ukrainian: а́йстра (ájstra)
→ Irish: astar
→ Italian: astro, aster
→ Middle French: aster
- French: aster
  - → Romanian: aster
→ Polish: aster
→ Portuguese: áster
→ Spanish: áster
→ Translingual: Thalassianthus aster, Aster (learned)

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^[1]

Mauritian Creole

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /astɛː/

Etymology 1

From French à cette heure (“at this hour”). Compare Louisiana Creole astè.

Adverb

aster

References

Baker, Philip; Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. (1987), Diksiyoner kreol morisyeṅ [Mauritian Creole Dictionary] (in French and English), Paris: L'Harmattan, →ISBN, page 36
Carpooran, Arnaud (2011), Diksioner Morisien [Mauritian Dictionary] (in Mauritian Creole), second edition, Éditions Le Printemps, →ISBN, page 153

Etymology 2

From French acheteur.

Noun

aster

buyer

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin Astēr. Doublet of Stela and Stella.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈas.tɛr/
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -astɛr
Syllabification: as‧ter
Homophone: Aster

Noun

aster m inan

aster (any plant of the genus Aster)

Declension

Declension of *aster*
	singular	plural
nominative	aster	astry
genitive	astra	astrów
dative	astrowi	astrom
accusative	aster, astra	astry
instrumental	astrem	astrami
locative	astrze	astrach
vocative	astrze	astry

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French aster. Doublet of star and stea.

Noun

aster m (plural asteri)

aster

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	aster	asterul	asteri	asterii
genitive-dative	aster	asterului	asteri	asterilor
vocative	asterule		asterilor

References

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

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