costar

English

Etymology

co- +‎ star

Noun

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.

Verb

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)”:

     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.

Anagrams

• acrost
• actors
• castor, Castor
• Croats
• scrota

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin constāre, present active infinitive of constō.

Verb

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

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

Conjugation

Conjugation of costar (first conjugation)

infinitive			costar
present participle			costant
past participle			costat
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
Indicative		jo	tu	ell/ella vostè	nosaltres nós	vosaltres vós	ells/elles vostès
	present	costo	costes	costa	costem	costeu	costen
	imperfect	costava	costaves	costava	costàvem	costàveu	costaven
	future	costaré	costaràs	costarà	costarem	costareu	costaran
	preterite	costí	costares	costà	costàrem	costàreu	costaren
	conditional	costaria	costaries	costaria	costaríem	costaríeu	costarien
subjunctive		jo	tu	ell/ella	nosaltres	vosaltres	ells/elles
	present	costi	costis	costi	costem	costeu	costin
	imperfect	costés	costessis	costés	costéssim	costéssiu	costessin
imperative		-	tu	ell/ella	nosaltres	vosaltres	ells/elles
		—	costa	costi	costem	costeu	costin

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Occitan

Etymology

From Latin constāre, present active infinitive of constō.

Verb

costar

1. to cost

Conjugation

This Occitan verb needs an inflection-table template.

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin constāre, present active infinitive of constō.

Verb

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

1. to cost
2. to find (something) very difficult

Conjugation

    Conjugation of costar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

Rule: o becomes a ue in stressed syllables.

infinitive			costar
gerund			costando
past participle			costado
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú	él/ella usted	nosotros	vosotros	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	cuesto	cuestas	cuesta	costamos	costáis	cuestan
	imperfect	costaba	costabas	costaba	costábamos	costabais	costaban
	preterite	costé	costaste	costó	costamos	costasteis	costaron
	future	costaré	costarás	costará	costaremos	costaréis	costarán
	conditional	costaría	costarías	costaría	costaríamos	costaríais	costarían
subjunctive		yo	tú	él/ella usted	nosotros	vosotros	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	cueste	cuestes	cueste	costemos	costéis	cuesten
	imperfect (ra)	costara	costaras	costara	costáramos	costarais	costaran
	imperfect (se)	costase	costases	costase	costásemos	costaseis	costasen
	future	costare	costares	costare	costáremos	costareis	costaren
imperative		—	tú	usted	nosotros	vosotros	ustedes
	affirmative		cuesta	cueste	costemos	costad	cuesten
	negative		no cuestes	no cueste	no costemos	no costéis	no cuesten

Other verbs with this conjugation:

[+] Spanish verbs ending in -ar (conjugation o-ue)

Related terms

• costa
• coste
• costo
• costoso

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Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian costare

Verb

costar (intransitive)

1. To cost

Conjugation

    Conjugation of costar ( 1st conjugation regular)

infinitive	costar
auxiliary verb		èser	gerund		costando
past participle		costà		NB: clitic pronouns (bold) are obligatory
person	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative	mi	ti te	eło el / eła ła	noialtri / noialtre	voialtri / voialtre	łuri i / łore łe
present	costo	costi	costa	costémo, costòn	costé	costa
imperfect	costava	costavi	costava	costàvimo	costavi	costava
future	costarò	costarè	costarà	costarémo	costarè	costarà
conditional	mi	ti te	eło el / eła ła	noialtri / noialtre	voialtri / voialtre	łuri i / łore łe
present	costarìa	costarisi	costarìa	costarìsimo	costarisi	costarìa
subjunctive	che mi	che ti te	che eło el / eła ła	che noialtri / noialtre	che voialtri / voialtre	che łuri i / łore łe
present	coste, costa	costi	coste, costa	costémo, costone	costé	coste, costa
imperfect	costase	costasi	costase	costàsimo	costasi	costase
imperative	-	ti te	eło el / eła ła	noialtri / noialtre	voialtri / voialtre	łuri i / łore łe
		costa	costa, coste	costémo	costé	costa, coste