aster

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

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈæstɚ/

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• Rhymes: -æstɚ

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-

• 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 aster, 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.

• IPA^(key): /as.tɛʁ/

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aster m (plural asters)

1. aster (flowering plant)

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

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈas.teːr/, [ˈäs̠t̪eːr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈas.ter/, [ˈäst̪er]

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).

• → English: aster
• Translingual: Aster, Cometaster, Thalassianthus aster

• “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

• asterla

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

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, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• aster in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French aster.

aster m (plural asteri)

1. aster

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