aster

See also Aster, and -aster

English

Aster incisus (1)

Wikipedia

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Latin aster, from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈɑːstə/, /ˈastə/
• Rhymes: -æstə(r)

Noun

aster (plural asters)

1. (obsolete) A star.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 94:

     by the changes and enter-caprings of which, the revolutions, motions, cadences, and carrols of the asters [transl. astres] and planets are caused and transported.

2. Any of several plants of the genus Aster; one of its flowers.
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 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.

3. (biology) A star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell.

Derived terms

• asteroid
• China aster Callistephus chinensis

Related terms

• astro-

Translations

plant

• Bulgarian: богородичка (bg) (bogorodička), димитровче (bg) (dimitrovče)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 翠菊 (cmn) (cuìjú), 紫菀 (cmn) (zǐwǎn)

• Czech: astra (cs) f
• French: aster (fr) f
• German: Aster (de) f

• Greek: αστέρας (el) (astéras) m
• Italian: astro (it) m
• Japanese: 嫁菜 (ja) (よめな, yomena), ヨメナ (ja) (yomena), シオン (ja) (shion)
• Korean: 과꽃 (ko) (gwakkot)
• Romanian: aster (ro) m
• Russian: астра (ru) (ástra) f
• Spanish: áster (es) m

Anagrams

• arste, rates, resat, setar, stare, tares, tarse, taser, Taser, tears, teras

---

Latin

Verb

aster

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of astō