aster

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈæs.tə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)

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.

• astro-

• → Cebuano: aster
• → Esperanto: astero

• 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

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

• Hyphenation: as‧ter

aster

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑs.tər/

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• Hyphenation: as‧ter
• Rhymes: -ɑstər

aster f (plural asters, diminutive astertje n)

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

• aster on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

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

• IPA^(key): /as.tɛʁ/

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aster m (plural asters)

1. aster (flowering plant)

• → Romanian: aster

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

Borrowed from Dutch aster, from Latin astēr, from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈastər/ [ˈas.t̪ər]
• Rhymes: -astər
• Syllabification: as‧ter

astêr (plural aster-aster)

1. (botany) aster, flowering plant of the genus Aster.

   Synonyms: jimla, pikok

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈastɛr/ [ˈas.t̪ɛr]
• Rhymes: -astɛr
• Syllabification: as‧ter

astèr (plural aster-aster or para aster)

1. (military) syllabic abbreviation of asisten teritorial (“territorial assistant”)

• “aster”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

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

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

astēr m (genitive asteris); third declension

1. A star

   Synonyms: astrum, stēlla, sīdus

2. Aster amellus (Italian starwort)

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

• “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]

• IPA^(key): /astɛː/

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

aster

1. now
2. at this moment

From French acheteur.

aster

1. buyer

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈas.tɛr/

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

aster m inan

1. aster (any plant of the genus Aster)

• “aster”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “aster”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)
• aster in PWN's encyclopedia

Borrowed from French aster. Doublet of star and stea.

aster m (plural asteri)

1. aster

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