aster

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: […] 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.

Anagrams

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

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑs.tər/

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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.

Noun

aster m (plural asters)

1. aster (flowering plant)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈas.teːr/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr).

Etymology 2

See 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