gaster

Borrowing from Ancient Greek γᾰστήρ (gastḗr, “paunch, belly”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡæ.stɚ/
• Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)

gaster (plural gasters)

1. (anatomy, rare) The stomach.
2. (zootomy, entomology) The enlarged part of the abdomen behind the petiole in hymenopterous insects (such as ants).

• paragaster
• metagaster

• -gastria
• gastric
• gastro-
• melanogaster

• “gaster”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• 'Gaters, Gaters, Greats, Stager, Strega, grates, greats, ragest, retags, stager, targes

Borrowing from Ancient Greek γᾰστήρ (gastḗr, “paunch, belly”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡas.ter/, [ˈɡäs̠t̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡas.ter/, [ˈɡäst̪er]

gaster f (variously declined, genitive gasteris or gastrī); third declension, second declension

1. (literal) the belly

   Synonym: (pure Latin) venter

2. (transferred sense) a big-bellied vessel
   • c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 70:

     Consternati nos insolentia ebriorum intentavimus oculos in proeliantes, notavimusque ostrea pectinesque e gastris labentia, quae collecta puer lance circumtulit.

Third-declension noun or second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

• gastricus

• digastricus

• “gaster”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gaster in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From Old French, from Latin vastāre, present active infinitive of vastō. The initial g is under the influence of Frankish *wuostjan, *wuastjan, itself from Latin vastō or from the same pre-Latin source.

gaster

1. to waste (not make good use of)
2. to destroy

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

• (to destroy): destruire

• French: gâter

• guaster

From Latin vastāre, derived from vāstus (“waste, desert”). The initial g(u) is under the influence of synonymous Frankish *wōstijan, itself from *wōstī, a cognate of Latin vāstus through Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂stos.

gaster

1. to waste (not make good use of)
2. to destroy

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-sts, *-stt are modified to z, st. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• (to destroy): destruire

• guastine, gastine

• Middle French: gaster
  • French: gâter