# aster
## English

Wikispecies

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈæs.tə(ɹ)/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)

### Noun

aster (plural asters)
* Any of several plants of the genus Aster; one of its flowers.
** 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Penguin, published 2011, page 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.
* (biology) A star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell.
* (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

* alpine aster (Aster alpinus)
* aromatic aster (Symphyotrichum oblongifolium)
* aster yellows
* asterwort
* devilweed aster
* asterless
* asteroid
* azure aster (Symphyotrichum oolentangiense)
* beach aster (Erigeron glaucus)
* big-leaf aster (Eurybia macrophylla)
* blue aster
* bog aster (Oclemena nemoralis)
* bushy aster (Symphyotrichum dumosum)
* button aster (Symphyotrichum dumosum)
* calico aster (Symphyotrichum lateriflorum)
* China aster (Callistephus chinensis)
* climbing aster (Ampelaster spp.)
* cornflower aster (Stokesia laevis)
* East Indies aster
* Fall aster (Symphyotrichum oblongifolium)
* frostweed aster (Verbesina virginica)
* glaucous aster (Symphyotrichum laeve)
* golden aster (Chrysopsis spp., Heterotheca spp.)
* goldilocks aster (Galatella linosyris)
* heartleaf aster (VSymphyotrichum cordifolium)
* Italian aster (Aster amellus)
* large-leaved aster (Eurybia macrophylla)
* Mojave-aster (Xylorhiza tortifolia)
* monaster
* mountain aster (Canadanthus spp.)
* New England aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae)
* New York aster (Symphyotrichum novi-belgii)
* panicled aster (Symphyotrichum lanceolatum)
* prairie aster
* purple-stemmed aster (Symphyotrichum puniceum)
* red-stalked aster (Symphyotrichum puniceum)
* rough-leaved aster (Eurybia radulina)
* rush aster (Symphyotrichum boreale)
* sandaster (Corethrogyne)
* Schreber's aster (Eurybia schreberi)
* sea aster (Tripolium pannonicum)
* Short's aster (Symphyotrichum shortii)
* silver aster (Chrysopsis graminifolia)
* slender aster (Eurybia compacta)
* smooth aster (Symphyotrichum laeve)
* southern aster
* sperm aster
* starved aster (Symphyotrichum lateriflorum)
* sticky aster (Machaeranthera bigelovii)
* stiff aster (Solidago ptarmicoides)
* Stokes' aster (Stokesia laevis)
* swamp aster (Symphyotrichum puniceum)
* tansyaster
* tansy-leaf aster
* Tartarian aster, tatarian aster (Aster tataricus)
* Tatarinow's aster (Aster tataricus)
* Tradescant's aster (Aster tradescanti)
* tree aster (Olearia spp.)
* wavy-leaved aster (Symphyotrichum undulatum)
* yellow aster (Eastwoodia elegans)

#### Related terms

* astro-

#### Descendants

* → Cebuano: aster
* → Esperanto: astero

#### Translations
### 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

## Cebuano
### Etymology

From English aster, from Latin astēr, from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr).

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: as‧ter

### Noun

aster
* an aster; any of several plants of the genus Aster
* the flower of these plants

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Latin astēr, from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr). Named after the flower's semblance to a star.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɑs.tər/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: as‧ter
* Rhymes: -ɑstər

### Noun

aster f (plural asters, diminutive astertje n)
* aster, flowering plant of the genus Aster
* a flower from this plant

#### Derived terms

* herfstaster
* zeeaster

### Further reading

* aster on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{nl}$

## French
### Etymology

From Middle French aster, from Latin astēr, from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓στήρ (ăstḗr). Doublet of star.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /as.tɛʁ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

aster m (plural asters)
* aster (flowering plant)

#### Descendants

* → Romanian: aster

### 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: /ˈas.teːr/, [ˈäs̠t̪eːr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈas.ter/, [ˈäst̪er]

### Noun

astēr m (genitive asteris); third declension
* A star
    Synonyms: astrum, stēlla, sīdus
* Aster amellus (Italian starwort)

#### Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, variant with nominative singular in -ēr).

#### Descendants

* → English: aster
** → Cebuano: aster
** → Esperanto: astero
* → German: Aster
** → Esperanto: astero
** → Ukrainian: а́йстра (ájstra)
* → Middle French: aster
** French: aster
*** → Romanian: aster
* Translingual: Aster, Thalassianthus 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

## Mauritian Creole
### Alternative forms

* asterla

### Etymology 1

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

#### Adverb

aster
* now
* at this moment

### Etymology 2

From French acheteur.

#### Noun

aster
* buyer

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin Astēr. Doublet of Stela and Stella.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈas.tɛr/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -astɛr
* Syllabification: as‧ter
* Homophone: Aster

### Noun

aster m inan
* aster (any plant of the genus Aster)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* aster in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* aster in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* aster in PWN's encyclopedia

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French aster. Doublet of star and stea.

### Noun

aster m (plural asteri)
* aster

#### Declension
### References

* aster in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN