# costar
## English
### Etymology

From co- +‎ star.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkəʊstɑː(ɹ)/

### Noun

costar (plural costars)
* (acting) a person who shares star billing
    The once famous actor objected to his costar having a bigger dressing room.
* (acting) a person who slightly lacks the status to be considered a star
    Alas, always a costar but never a star.

### Verb

costar (third-person singular simple present costars, present participle costarring, simple past and past participle costarred)
* to perform with the billing of a costar.
    People thought his career was over but now he will get to costar on Broadway next month.
** 2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎:Purchasing a snowplow transforms Homer into a new man. Mr. Burns' laziest employee suddenly becomes an ambitious self-starter who buys ad time on local television at 3:17 A.M (prime viewing hours, Homer gingerly volunteers, for everyone from alcoholics to the unemployable to garden-variety angry loners) and makes a homemade commercial costarring his family.

### Anagrams

* Castor, Castro, Cators, Croats, acrost, actors, castor, scroat, scrota, tarocs

## Asturian
### Etymology

From Latin constāre.

### Verb

costar (first-person singular indicative present costo, past participle costáu)
* to cost (incur a charge, a price)

#### Conjugation
## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin cōnstāre. Compare Occitan costar, French coûter, Spanish costar. Doublet of constar, a borrowing from Latin.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [kusˈta]
* IPA: (Balearic) [kosˈta]
* IPA: (Valencia) [kosˈtaɾ]
* Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

### Verb

costar (first-person singular present costo, first-person singular preterite costí, past participle costat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/
* to cost (have a given price)
** 2009, Jean Grave, Les Aventures d'en Nono:Digues, mare, quant costarà un llibre de contes[?]Tell me, mother, how much does a story book cost?
* to be very difficult

#### Conjugation
### References

* “costar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Occitan
### Etymology

From Old Occitan costar, from Latin constāre.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

costar
* to cost

#### Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish costar, from Latin cōnstāre. Doublet of constar, a borrowing.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kosˈtaɾ/ [kosˈt̪aɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: cos‧tar

### Verb

costar (first-person singular present cuesto, first-person singular preterite costé, past participle costado)
* to cost
* to find something very difficult, to have a hard time with something
    Cuando estoy de pie, me cuesta respirar.When I'm standing, I find it hard to breathe.
    Le cuesta mucho pronunciar esa palabra.He has a really hard time pronouncing that word.

#### Usage notes

In the second sense, the subject and object roles are inverted relative to the English phrasing, as with gustar.

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

#### Derived terms

* costar un huevo
* costar un ojo de la cara
* costar un pico
* nunca mucho cuesta poco
* quien algo quiere, algo le cuesta

#### Related terms

* costa
* coste
* costo
* costoso

### Further reading

* “costar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Venetan
### Alternative forms

* gostar

### Etymology

From Latin constāre. Compare Italian costare.

### Verb

costar
* (intransitive) to cost

#### Conjugation

* Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.