different between aster vs asterisk

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Latin aster, from Ancient Greek ????? (ast?r). Doublet of star.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?æst?(?)/
• Rhymes: -æst?(?)

Noun

aster (plural asters)

1. 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.

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

Derived terms

• alpine aster (Aster alpinus)
• aromatic aster (Symphyotrichum oblongifolium)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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-

Translations

Anagrams

• 'earts, Aters, Sater, TASer, Taser, Tesar, arets, arste, earst, rates, reast, resat, setar, stare, stear, tares, tarse, taser, tears, teras

Cebuano

Etymology

From English aster, from Latin aster, from Ancient Greek ????? (ast?r).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: as?ter

Noun

aster

1. an aster; any of several plants of the genus Aster
2. the flower of these plants

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin ast?r, from Ancient Greek ????? (ast?r). Named after the flower's semblance to a star.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s.t?r/
• Hyphenation: as?ter
• Rhymes: -?st?r

Noun

aster f (plural asters, diminutive astertje n)

1. aster, flowering plant of the genus Aster.
2. A flower from this plant.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /as.t??/

Noun

aster m (plural asters)

1. aster (flowering plant)

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?as.te?r/, [?äs?t?e?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?as.ter/, [??st??r]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (ast?r).

Noun

ast?r m (genitive asteris); third declension

1. A star

   Synonyms: astrum, st?lla, s?dus

2. Aster amellus (Italian starwort)

Declension

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

Descendants

• ? English: aster
• Translingual: Aster, Cometaster, Thalassianthus aster

Etymology 2

See ast?

Verb

aster

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of ast?

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?^[1]

Mauritian Creole

Alternative forms

• asterla

Etymology 1

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

Adverb

aster

1. now
2. at this moment

Etymology 2

From French acheteur.

Noun

aster

1. buyer

Polish

Etymology

From Latin aster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.st?r/

Noun

aster m inan (or m anim)

1. aster (plant of the genus Aster)

Declension

Further reading

• aster in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• aster in Polish dictionaries at PWN

English

Alternative forms

• asterisc
• asterix (eye dialect)

Etymology

From Late Latin asteriscus, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (asterískos, “a little star, asterisk, used in manuscripts to mark passages”), diminutive of ????? (ast?r, “a star”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æst???sk/, /?æst??sk/

Noun

asterisk (plural asterisks)

1. The symbol *.
2. Something in the shape of or resembling the asterisk symbol.
3. (sports, US) A blemish in an otherwise outstanding achievement.

   They came into the tournament highly ranked, but with a little bit of an asterisk as their last two wins had been unconvincing.

Translations

See also

Typography

Verb

asterisk (third-person singular simple present asterisks, present participle asterisking, simple past and past participle asterisked)

1. (transitive) To mark or replace with an asterisk symbol (*); star.

Related terms

• aster
• asterism
• asteroid

Further reading

• asterisk in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• asterisk in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• sarkiest, skaiters

Danish

Noun

asterisk c (singular definite asterisken, plural indefinite asterisker)

1. asterisk

Inflection

Swedish

Noun

asterisk c

1. asterisk

Declension