# auster
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɔːstɚ/, /ˈɒstɚ/

### Noun

auster
* Alternative letter-case form of Auster (“the south wind”)

#### Translations
### References

* “auster”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* Sauter, Uretas, Sutera, Atreus, sauter, Tauers, urates

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin austērus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [əwsˈter]
* IPA: (Valencia) [awsˈter]

### Adjective

auster (feminine austera, masculine plural austers, feminine plural austeres)
* austere

#### Derived terms

* austerament

#### Related terms

* austeritat

### Further reading

* “auster” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “auster”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “auster” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “auster” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *austeros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwsteros, from *h₂ews- (“dawn”). Cognate with Latin aurōra, English east, German Ost.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈau̯s.ter/, [ˈäu̯s̠t̪ɛr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈau̯s.ter/, [ˈäu̯st̪er]

### Noun

auster m (genitive austrī); second declension
* the south wind
* south (compass direction)

#### Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “south wind”): boreās, septentriō

#### Coordinate terms

compass points:
| | septentriō boreās | |
| occidēns occāsus | | oriēns eurus |
| | merīdiēs auster | |

#### Derived terms

* austrālis
* austrifer
* austrīnus
* Austrō
* austronotus
* autroafricus

#### Descendants

* Balkano-Romance:
** Aromanian: austru
** Romanian: austru
* Italo-Dalmatian:
** Dalmatian: uostro
** Italian: ostro
*** → English: ostro
* Borrowings:
** → Italian: austro
** → Old Catalan: austre
** → Old French: austre, auster, aster, ostre
** → Portuguese: austro
** → Spanish: austro

### References

* “auster”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “auster”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “auster”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “auster”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 25: Refonte Apaideutos–Azymus, page 1065

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Old Norse austr.

### Noun

auster m (definite singular austeren, indefinite plural austrar, definite plural austrane)
* an act of scooping up something
* (amount of) water which should be drained from a boat

### Noun

auster f (definite singular austra, indefinite plural austrer, definite plural austrene)
* a big ladle

### Related terms

* ausa, ause (verb)

### References

* “auster” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French austère, from Latin austerus.

### Adjective

auster m or n (feminine singular austeră, masculine plural austeri, feminine and neuter plural austere)
* austere

#### Related terms

* austeritate