aster

See also: Appendix:Variations of "aster"

English

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aster

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Aster

Etymology

From Latin astēr, from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr). Doublet of star, stella, étoile, and estoile.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæs.tə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)

Noun

aster (plural asters)

1. Any of several plants of the genus Aster; one of its flowers.
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Penguin, published 2011, page 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.

2. (biology) A star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell.
3. (obsolete) A star.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
     , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.94:

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

Derived terms

terms derived from aster

• alpine aster (Aster alpinus)
• aromatic aster (Symphyotrichum oblongifolium)
• aster yellows
• asterwort
• devilweed aster
• asterless
• asteroid
• azure aster (Symphyotrichum oolentangiense)
• beach aster (Erigeron glaucus)
• big-leaf aster (Eurybia macrophylla)
• blue aster
• bog aster (Oclemena nemoralis)
• bushy aster (Symphyotrichum dumosum)
• button aster (Symphyotrichum dumosum)
• calico aster (Symphyotrichum lateriflorum)
• China aster (Callistephus chinensis)
• climbing aster (Ampelaster spp.)
• cornflower aster (Stokesia laevis)
• East Indies aster
• Fall aster (Symphyotrichum oblongifolium)
• frostweed aster (Verbesina virginica)
• glaucous aster (Symphyotrichum laeve)
• golden aster (Chrysopsis spp., Heterotheca spp.)
• goldilocks aster (Galatella linosyris)
• heartleaf aster (VSymphyotrichum cordifolium)
• Italian aster (Aster amellus)
• large-leaved aster (Eurybia macrophylla)
• Mojave-aster (Xylorhiza tortifolia)
• monaster
• mountain aster (Canadanthus spp.)
• New England aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae)
• New York aster (Symphyotrichum novi-belgii)
• panicled aster (Symphyotrichum lanceolatum)
• prairie aster
• purple-stemmed aster (Symphyotrichum puniceum)
• red-stalked aster (Symphyotrichum puniceum)
• rough-leaved aster (Eurybia radulina)
• rush aster (Symphyotrichum boreale)
• sandaster (Corethrogyne)
• Schreber's aster (Eurybia schreberi)
• sea aster (Tripolium pannonicum)
• Short's aster (Symphyotrichum shortii)
• silver aster (Chrysopsis graminifolia)
• slender aster (Eurybia compacta)
• smooth aster (Symphyotrichum laeve)
• southern aster
• sperm aster
• starved aster (Symphyotrichum lateriflorum)
• sticky aster (Machaeranthera bigelovii)
• stiff aster (Solidago ptarmicoides)
• Stokes' aster (Stokesia laevis)
• swamp aster (Symphyotrichum puniceum)
• tansyaster
• tansy-leaf aster
• Tartarian aster, tatarian aster (Aster tataricus)
• Tatarinow's aster (Aster tataricus)
• Tradescant's aster (Aster tradescanti)
• tree aster (Olearia spp.)
• wavy-leaved aster (Symphyotrichum undulatum)
• yellow aster (Eastwoodia elegans)

Related terms

• astro-

Descendants

• → Cebuano: aster
• → Esperanto: astero

Translations

plant

Bulgarian: богородичка (bogorodička), димитровче (dimitrovče) Catalan: àster m Chinese: Mandarin: 翠菊 (zh) (cuìjú), 紫菀 (zh) (zǐwǎn) Czech: hvězdnice f Esperanto: astero Finnish: asteri (fi), saunio (fi) French: aster (fr) f German: Aster (de) f Greek: αστέρας (el) m (astéras) Ancient: ἀστερίσκος m (asterískos) Hungarian: őszirózsa (hu) Indonesian: aster (id) Irish: astar m Italian: astro (it) m Japanese: 嫁菜 (ja) (よめな, yomena), ヨメナ (ja) (yomena), 紫苑 (ja) (shion), シオン (shion) Korean: 과꽃 (gwakkot) Polish: aster (pl) m Portuguese: áster m Romanian: aster (ro) m Russian: а́стра (ru) f (ástra) Spanish: aster m Swedish: aster (sv) c Turkish: yıldızpatı (tr) Ukrainian: а́йстра (uk) f (ájstra) Welsh: serenllys m, blodyn Mihangel (cy) m

star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell

Finnish: asteri (fi) Portuguese: áster m Spanish: áster (es) m

Anagrams

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

Cebuano

Etymology

From English aster, from Latin astēr, 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

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

Derived terms

• herfstaster
• zeeaster

Further reading

• aster on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

French

Etymology

From Middle French aster, from Latin astēr, from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓στήρ (ăstḗr). Doublet of star.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /as.tɛʁ/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Noun

aster m (plural asters)

1. aster (flowering plant)

Descendants

• → Romanian: aster

Further reading

• “aster”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr). See also Latin astrum and the inherited stēlla.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈas.teːr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈas.ter]

Noun

astēr m (genitive asteris); third declension

1. A star

   Synonyms: astrum, stēlla, sīdus

2. Aster amellus (Italian starwort)

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, variant with nominative singular in -ēr).

	singular	plural
nominative	astēr	asterēs
genitive	asteris	asterum
dative	asterī	asteribus
accusative	astera asterem	asterēs
ablative	astere	asteribus
vocative	astēr	asterēs

Descendants

• → English: aster, aster-, astero-
  • → Cebuano: aster
  • → Esperanto: astero
  (Please either change this template to {{desc}} or insert a ====Descendants==== section in aster-#English)
• → Dutch: aster
• → German: Aster
  • → Esperanto: astero
  • → Ukrainian: а́йстра (ájstra)
• → Italian: astro, aster
• → Middle French: aster
  • French: aster
    • → Romanian: aster
• → Polish: aster
• → Portuguese: áster
• → Spanish: áster
• → Translingual: Aster, Thalassianthus aster

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

Mauritian Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /astɛː/

Etymology 1

From French à cette heure (“at this hour”). Compare Louisiana Creole astè.

Adverb

aster

1. now
2. at this moment

Etymology 2

From French acheteur.

Noun

aster

1. buyer

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

aster

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin Astēr. Doublet of Stela and Stella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈas.tɛr/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -astɛr
• Syllabification: as‧ter
• Homophone: Aster

Noun

aster m inan

1. aster (any plant of the genus Aster)

Declension

Declension of aster

	singular	plural
nominative	aster	astry
genitive	astra	astrów
dative	astrowi	astrom
accusative	aster/astra	astry
instrumental	astrem	astrami
locative	astrze	astrach
vocative	astrze	astry

Further reading

• aster in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• aster in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• aster in PWN's encyclopedia

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French aster. Doublet of star and stea.

Noun

aster m (plural asteri)

1. aster

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	aster	asterul		asteri	asterii
genitive-dative	aster	asterului		asteri	asterilor
vocative	asterule			asterilor

References

• aster in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN