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-aster
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "aster"
Translingual
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓στήρ (ăstḗr, “star; celestial body”).
Suffix
-aster m (feminine -astra, neuter -astrum or -astron)
- Used to create genera relating to stars; most commonly applied to echinoderms such as starfish and brittle stars.
English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin -aster (“little, petty, partial, incomplete”).
Suffix
-aster
- Used to form diminutive and pejorative nouns, labeling someone pretending to be what they are not.
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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From suffix originally forming Ancient Greek nouns from verbs ending in -άζειν (-ázein).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈas.tɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈas.ter]
Suffix
-aster (feminine -astra, neuter -astrum); first/second-declension suffix (nominative masculine singular in -er)
- 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; stepfather”)
- pullus (“chicken”) + -astra → pullastra (“young hen; pullet”)
- philosophus (“philosopher”) + -aster → philosophaster (“petty, charlatan philosopher; philosophaster”)
Declension
First/second-declension suffix (nominative masculine singular in -er).
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