aster

See also: Aster, áster, and -aster

English

Aster incisus (2)

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Latin aster, from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈæstə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)

Noun

aster (plural asters)

1. (obsolete) A star.
   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
     , 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: A Family Chronicle, 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 (bogorodička), димитровче (dimitrovče)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: hvězdnice f
• Finnish: asteri (fi), saunio (fi)
• French: aster (fr) f
• German: Aster (de) f
• Greek: αστέρας (el) m (astéras)
• Hungarian: őszirózsa (hu)
• Indonesian: aster (id)

• Irish: astar m
• Italian: astro (it) m
• Japanese: 嫁菜 (よめな, yomena), ヨメナ (ja) (yomena), 紫苑 (ja) (shion), シオン (shion)
• Korean: 과꽃 (gwakkot)
• Portuguese: áster m
• Romanian: aster (ro) m
• Russian: а́стра (ru) f (ástra)
• Spanish: áster (es) m
• Swedish: aster (sv) c
• Turkish: yıldızpatı (tr)

star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell

• Portuguese: áster m

Anagrams

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

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Cebuano

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: as‧ter

Noun

aster

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

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Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑs.tər/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: as‧ter
• Rhymes: -ɑstər

Noun

aster f (plural asters, diminutive astertje n)

1. aster, flowering plant of the genus Aster.
2. A flower from this plant.

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French

Noun

aster m (plural asters)

1. aster (flowering plant)

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈas.teːr/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr).

Noun

astēr m (genitive asteris); third declension

1. A star

   Synonyms: astrum, stēlla, sīdus

2. Aster amellus, the Italian starwort

Declension

Third declension, Greek type, nominative singular in -ēr.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	astēr	asterēs
genitive	asteris	asterum
dative	asterī	asteribus
accusative	astera asterem	asterēs
ablative	astere	asteribus
vocative	astēr	asterēs

Etymology 2

See astō

Verb

aster

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of astō

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]

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Mauritian Creole

Alternative forms

• asterla

Etymology 1

From French à cette heure (“at this hour”).

Adverb

aster

1. now
2. at this moment

Etymology 2

From French acheteur.

Noun

aster

1. buyer