Aster Definition

Contents

• 1 English
  • 1.1 Etymology
  • 1.2 Pronunciation
  • 1.3 Noun
    • 1.3.1 Derived terms
    • 1.3.2 Translations
  • 1.4 Anagrams
• 2 Latin
  • 2.1 Verb

English

Etymology

From Latin aster, from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈɑːstə/, /ˈastə/

  Rhymes: -æstə(r)

Noun

aster (plural asters)

1. (obsolete) A star.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 94:

     by the changes and enter-caprings of which, the revolutions, motions, cadences, and carrols of the asters [tr. astres] and planets are caused and transported.

2. Any of several plants of the genus Aster; one of its flowers.
3. (biology) A star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell.

Derived terms

• China aster (Callistephus chinensis)

Anagrams

• arste
• rates
• resat
• setar
• stare
• tares
• tarse
• taser, Taser
• tears
• teras

Latin

Verb

aster

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of astō.

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