-aster
See also: Appendix:Variations of "aster"
Translingual
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓στήρ (ăstḗr, “star; celestial body”).
Suffix
-aster m (feminine -astra, neuter -astrum or -astron)
- Used to create genera relating to stars; most commonly applied to echinoderms such as starfish and brittle stars.
Derived terms
English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin -aster (“little, petty, partial, incomplete”).
Suffix
-aster
- Used to form diminutive and pejorative nouns, labeling someone pretending to be what they are not.
Derived terms
Translations
-aster
Anagrams
- 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
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From suffix originally forming Ancient Greek nouns from verbs ending in -άζειν (-ázein).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈas.tɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈas.ter]
Suffix
-aster (feminine -astra, neuter -astrum); first/second-declension suffix (nominative masculine singular in -er)
- suffix of nouns or adjectives, expressing half, partial, or incomplete resemblance to the root word meaning; hence in some cases may be pejorative
- pater (“father”) + -aster → patraster (“father-in-law; stepfather”)
- pullus (“chicken”) + -astra → pullastra (“young hen; pullet”)
- philosophus (“philosopher”) + -aster → philosophaster (“petty, charlatan philosopher; philosophaster”)
Declension
First/second-declension suffix (nominative masculine singular in -er).
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | -aster | -astra | -astrum | -astrī | -astrae | -astra | |
| genitive | -astrī | -astrae | -astrī | -astrōrum | -astrārum | -astrōrum | |
| dative | -astrō | -astrae | -astrō | -astrīs | |||
| accusative | -astrum | -astram | -astrum | -astrōs | -astrās | -astra | |
| ablative | -astrō | -astrā | -astrō | -astrīs | |||
| vocative | -aster | -astra | -astrum | -astrī | -astrae | -astra | |
Derived terms
Descendants
Categories:
- Translingual terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₂stḗr
- Translingual terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- Translingual terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂eh₁-
- Translingual terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂eHs-
- Translingual terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Translingual terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Translingual learned borrowings from Ancient Greek
- Translingual terms derived from Proto-Hellenic
- Translingual lemmas
- Translingual suffixes
- Translingual masculine suffixes
- English terms borrowed from Latin
- English learned borrowings from Latin
- English terms derived from Latin
- English lemmas
- English suffixes
- English diminutive suffixes
- Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Latin 2-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin adjectives
- Latin first and second declension adjectives with nominative masculine singular in -er
- Latin first and second declension adjectives
- Latin noun-forming suffixes
- Latin adjective-forming suffixes