-aster

See also: Aster, aster, áster, åster, and aster-

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin -aster (“little, petty, partial, incomplete”).

Suffix

-aster

1. Used to form diminutive and pejorative nouns, labeling someone pretending to be what they are not.

   ‎poet + ‎-aster → ‎poetaster (“unskilled poet”)

   ‎critic + ‎-aster → ‎criticaster (“petty critic”)

   ‎pillar + ‎-aster → ‎pilaster (“pillar that does not provide support”)

Derived terms

English terms suffixed with -aster

Translations

-aster

• Esperanto: -eto (diminutive), -aĉo (pejorative)
• French: -âtre (fr)
• Ido: -eto (diminutive), -acho (pejorative)
• Interlingua: -astro m, -astra f
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: -ok (ku), -ik (ku)

• Portuguese: -astro, -acho (pt)
• Spanish: -astro m, -astra f, -astre m (sometimes)

Anagrams

• 'earts, Aters, Sater, Satre, TASer, Taser, Tesar, arets, arste, earst, rates, reast, resat, setar, stare, stear, tares, tarse, taser, tears, teras

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Latin

Alternative forms

• -astrum

Etymology

From suffix originally forming Ancient Greek nouns from verbs ending in -άζειν (-ázein).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈas.ter/, [ˈäs̠t̪ɛr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈas.ter/, [ˈäst̪er]

Suffix

-aster (feminine -astra, neuter -astrum); first/second-declension suffix (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. suffix of nouns or adjectives, expressing half, partial, or incomplete resemblance to the root word meaning; hence in some cases may be pejorative.

   ‎pater (“father”) + ‎-aster → ‎patraster (“father-in-law, step-father”)

Declension

First/second-declension suffix (nominative masculine singular in -er).

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	-aster	-astra	-astrum		-astrī	-astrae	-astra
Genitive	-astrī	-astrae	-astrī		-astrōrum	-astrārum	-astrōrum
Dative	-astrō		-astrō		-astrīs
Accusative	-astrum	-astram	-astrum		-astrōs	-astrās	-astra
Ablative	-astrō	-astrā	-astrō		-astrīs
Vocative	-aster	-astra	-astrum		-astrī	-astrae	-astra

Derived terms

Latin terms suffixed with -aster

Descendants

• Catalan: -astre
• French: -âtre
• Italian: -astro
• Portuguese: -astro
• Sicilian: -astra
• Spanish: -astro