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Asta

Asta

See also: asta, Ásta, ăsta, and astă

Translingual

Proper noun

Asta f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Brassicaceae – an herb found in Mexico, especially San Luis Potosi.

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Translations


Danish

Etymology

Old Norse Ásta, a medieval diminutive of Ástríðr (hence Astrid).

Proper noun

Asta

  1. A female given name.

Estonian

Etymology

Short form of Astrid, Anastasia and Augusta.

Proper noun

Asta

  1. A female given name.

Faroese

Proper noun

Asta f

  1. A female given name

Usage notes

Matronymics

  • son of Asta: Astuson
  • daughter of Asta: Astudóttir

Declension

Singular
Indefinite
Nominative Asta
Accusative Astu
Dative Astu
Genitive Astu

Finnish

Etymology

From Old Norse Ásta, sometimes also used as a pet form of Augusta or Anastasia.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɑstɑ
  • IPA(key): [ˈɑstɑ]
  • Hyphenation: As‧ta

Proper noun

Asta

  1. A female given name.

Declension

Inflection of Asta (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative Asta Astat
genitive Astan Astojen
partitive Astaa Astoja
illative Astaan Astoihin
singular plural
nominative Asta Astat
accusative nom. Asta Astat
gen. Astan
genitive Astan Astojen
Astainrare
partitive Astaa Astoja
inessive Astassa Astoissa
elative Astasta Astoista
illative Astaan Astoihin
adessive Astalla Astoilla
ablative Astalta Astoilta
allative Astalle Astoille
essive Astana Astoina
translative Astaksi Astoiksi
instructive Astoin
abessive Astatta Astoitta
comitative Astoineen

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Asta

  1. A female given name of Old Norse origin.

Swedish

Proper noun

Asta

  1. A female given name of Old Norse origin, also used as a pet form of Augusta.

asta

asta

See also: Asta, Ásta, ăsta, and astă

Irish

Pronoun

asta (emphatic astasan)

  1. Alternative form of astu

Italian

Noun

asta f (plural aste)

  1. pole
  2. rod
  3. A short, straight line, especially the vertical part of a letter
  4. lance
  5. auction

Derived terms


Latin

Verb

astā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of astō

References

  • asta in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ASTA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • asta in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • asta in William Smith., editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • asta in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Malay

Malay cardinal numbers
 <  7 8 9  > 
    Cardinal : asta

Etymology

From Sanskrit अष्ट (aṣṭa), from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Numeral

asta

  1. (cardinal) eight

Synonyms


Romanian

Etymology

From astă, from Latin ista(m), feminine of iste.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈas.ta]

Determiner

asta

  1. feminine singular form of ăsta

Pronoun

asta

  1. feminine singular of ăsta

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish asta, from Old Irish essib, eissib, esib, estib, eistib.

Pronoun

asta (emphatic astasan)

  1. third-person plural of as (from them)

See also

References

  • 7 a” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin hasta.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈas.ta/
  • Homophone: hasta

Noun

asta f (plural astas)

  1. bar
  2. flagstaff
  3. lance
  4. horn

Usage notes

  • The feminine noun asta is like other feminine nouns starting with a stressed a sound in that it takes the definite article el (normally reserved for masculine nouns) in the singular when there is no intervening adjective:
el asta
  • However, if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun, the article reverts to la.

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