different between coster vs costen

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English costnien, from Old English costnian, subsidiary form of Old English costian (“to tempt, try, prove, examine”), from Proto-Germanic *kust?n? (“to try, taste”), from Proto-Indo-European *?ews- (“to enjoy, taste”). Cognate with German kosten (“to taste”). More at choose.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?.s?n/

Verb

costen (third-person singular simple present costens, present participle costening, simple past and past participle costened)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To try; tempt.

Related terms

• cost
• costning

Anagrams

• Contés, Tecson, c notes, c-notes, centos, socnet

Catalan

Verb

costen

1. third-person plural present indicative form of costar