different between aster vs paster

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

Etymology

paste +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?st?(r)

Noun

paster (plural pasters)

1. One who, or that which, pastes.
2. A slip of paper, usually bearing a name, intended to be pasted by the voter, as a substitute, over another name on a printed ballot.

Anagrams

• Pearts, paters, petars, prates, pretas, repast, repats, retaps, tapers, trapes, treaps

West Flemish

Etymology

From Middle Dutch past?or, from Latin p?stor. The West Flemish word has stress on the first syllable, like the Latin, but this is not clearly attested in Middle Dutch.

Noun

paster m (plural pasters)

1. priest