Translingual

Aster tataricus

Proper noun

Aster m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae – the asters.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids II - clades; Asterales - order; Asteraceae - family; Asteroideae - subfamily; Astereae - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): See Aster on WikispeciesWikispecies for the many species

Translations

References

1. ↑ Chambers Dictionary of Etymology, Robert K. Barnhart (ed.), Chambers, 1988.
2. ↑ Erhardt, Walter & Götz, Erich & Bödeker, Nils & Seybold, Siegmund, Zander. Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen. Dictionary of plant names. Dictionnaire des noms de plantes, Ulmer, 2000.
3. ↑ Hyam, Roger & Pankhurst, Richard, Plants and their Names. A Concise Dictionary, Oxford University Press, US, 1995.

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin aster ‎(“star”)

Proper noun

Aster ?

1. A male given name

Related terms

• asteroïde
• astraal (adjective)

Anagrams

• stare

German

Etymology

From Latin aster ‎(“star”)

The flower species Aster tataricus

Noun

Aster f

1. (botany) A taxonomic plant genus, within tribe Astereae - the asters.

Wikispecies

Related terms

• Asteroid

Proper noun

Aster

1. A male given name

English

Aster incisus (2)

Wikispecies

Noun

aster ‎(plural asters)

1. (obsolete) A star.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.94:

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

2. Any of several plants of the genus Aster; one of its flowers.
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Penguin 2011, p.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.

3. (biology) A star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell.

Derived terms

• asteroid
• China aster (Callistephus chinensis)

Related terms

• astro-

Translations

Anagrams

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

French

Noun

aster m ‎(plural asters)

1. aster (flowering plant)

Latin

Etymology 1

Borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ ‎(astḗr).

Noun

astēr m ‎(genitive asteris); third declension

1. A star
2. Aster amellus, the Italian starwort

Declension

Third declension, Greek type, nominative singular in -ēr.

Etymology 2

See asto

Verb

aster

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of astō

References

• aster in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “aster”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• aster in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia