aster

See also: Aster, áster, åster, aster-, and -aster

English

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Wikispecies

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæstə(ɹ)/

• Audio (UK):

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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 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.

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

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terms derived from aster

• alpine aster ()
• aromatic aster ()
• asterless
• asteroid
• azure aster ()
• beach aster ()
• big-leaf aster ()
• blue aster
• bog aster ()
• bushy aster ()
• button aster ()
• calico aster ()
• China aster (Callistephus chinensis)
• climbing aster ( spp.)
• cornflower aster ()
• East Indies aster
• Fall aster (Symphyotrichum oblongifolium)
• frostweed aster ()
• glaucous aster ()
• golden aster ( spp., spp.)
• goldilocks aster ()
• heartleaf aster ()
• Italian aster (Aster amellus)
• large-leaved aster ()
• Mojave-aster ()
• mountain aster ( spp.)
• New England aster ()
• New York aster ()
• panicled aster ()
• prairie aster
• purple-stemmed aster ()
• red-stalked aster ()
• rough-leaved aster ()
• rush aster ()
• sandaster ()
• Schreber's aster ()
• sea aster ()
• Short's aster ()
• silver aster ()
• slender aster ()
• smooth aster ()
• southern aster
• sperm aster
• starved aster ()
• sticky aster ()
• stiff aster ()
• Stokes' aster ()
• swamp aster ()
• tansy-leaf aster
• Tartarian aster, tatarian aster ()
• Tatarinow's aster ()
• Tradescant's aster ()
• tree aster (Olearia spp.)
• wavy-leaved aster ()
• yellow aster ()

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Related terms

• astro-

Translations

plant

• Bulgarian: богородичка (bogorodička), димитровче (dimitrovče)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 翠菊 (zh) (cuìjú), 紫菀 (zh) (zǐwǎn)

• Czech: hvězdnice f
• 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 (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)

star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell

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

Anagrams

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

Cebuano

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

Dutch

Twee asters bezocht door bijen. — Two asters tended by bees.

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.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /as.tɛʁ/

• Audio:

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Noun

aster m (plural asters)

1. aster (flowering plant)

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

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
• Translingual: 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^[1]

Mauritian Creole

Alternative forms

• asterla

Etymology 1

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

Adverb

aster

1. now
2. at this moment

Etymology 2

From French acheteur.

Noun

aster

1. buyer

Polish

astry

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin Astēr, from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓στήρ (ăstḗr), from Proto-Hellenic *astḗr, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr. Doublet of Stella.

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French aster.

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