different between colter vs coster

English

Alternative forms

• coulter (mostly Commonwealth)
• culter

Etymology

From Old English culter, from Latin culter (“a knife”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??lt?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ko?lt??/

Noun

colter (plural colters)

1. A knife or cutter attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.9:

     I lately left a furrow, one or twayne, / Unplough'd, the which my coulter hath not cleft […].
2. The part of a seed drill that makes the furrow for the seed.

Translations

References

• Chambers's Etymological Dictionary, 1896, p. 82

Anagrams

• Cotler, lector

English

Noun

coster (plural costers)

1. Clipping of costermonger.
2. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Acraea.

Derived terms

• costerdom

Anagrams

• Ectors, Tresco, corset, escort, recost, rectos, scoter, scrote, sector

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin const?re, present active infinitive of const?.

Verb

coster

1. To cost

Conjugation

• Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Old French

Alternative forms

• couster

Etymology

From Latin const?re, present active infinitive of const?.

Verb

coster

1. to cost (have a certain cost)

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-sts, *-stt are modified to z, st. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

• Middle French: couster
  • French: coûter
• Norman: couôter, coûtaïr
• ? Dutch: kosten
• ? Middle English: costen
  • English: cost
  • Scots: cost
• ? Middle High German: kosten
  • Bavarian:

    Cimbrian: khostan

    Mòcheno: kosten

  • German: kosten