different between gaster vs laster

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gaster (“the belly”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??æ.st?/
• Rhymes: -æst?(?)

Noun

gaster (plural gasters)

1. (anatomy, rare) The stomach.
2. (entomology) The enlarged part of the abdomen behind the petiole in hymenopterous insects (such as ants).

Related terms

• gastric (adjective)

References

• “gaster”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Anagrams

• 'Gaters, Greats, Stager, Strega, grates, greats, ragest, retags, stager, targes

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (gast?r, “a paunch, belly”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

gaster f (variously declined, genitive gasteris or gastr?); third declension, second declension

1. The belly.

   Synonym: venter

2. A big bellied vessel.

Inflection

Third-declension noun or second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

Derived terms

• digastricus

Descendants

? English: gaster

References

• gaster in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gaster in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin vast?re, present active infinitive of vast?. The initial g is under the influence of Frankish *wuostjan, *wuastjan, itself from Latin vast? or from the same pre-Latin source.

Verb

gaster

1. to waste (not make good use of)
2. to destroy

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Synonyms

• (to destroy): destruire

Descendants

• French: gâter

Old French

Etymology

From Latin vast?re, present active infinitive of vast?. The initial g is under the influence of Frankish *wuostjan, *wuastjan, itself from Latin vast? or from the same pre-Latin source.

Verb

gaster

1. to waste (not make good use of)
2. to destroy

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.

Synonyms

• (to destroy): destruire

Descendants

• Middle French: gaster
  • French: gâter

English

Etymology

last +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??st?(r)

Noun

laster (plural lasters)

1. A workman whose business it is to shape boots or shoes, or place leather smoothly, on lasts.
2. A tool for stretching leather on a last.
3. That which lasts or endures.
   • 1818, Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London (volume 2, page 51)

     […] the Ambret; which Pear, though it neither grows to be so large in substance or size, as large Les Chasseries, yet bears more in number, comes sooner into bearing, tastes better in the mouth, and is commonly a long laster.

Translations

Anagrams

• Salter, Slater, alerts, alters, artels, estral, laters, ratels, resalt, salter, slater, staler, stelar, strale, streal, talers, tarsel, tralse

Basque

Alternative forms

• laister

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /las?.ter/

Adjective

laster

1. fast

Adverb

laster (comparative lasterrago, superlative lasterren, excessive lasterregi)

1. soon

Danish

Noun

laster c

1. indefinite plural of last

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

laster m (uncountable)

1. slander

Verb

laster

1. first-person singular present indicative of lasteren
2. imperative of lasteren

Anagrams

• strale

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

laster m or f

1. indefinite plural of last

Verb

laster

1. present of laste

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• lastar

Noun

laster f or m

1. indefinite feminine plural of last

Swedish

Noun

laster

1. indefinite plural of last

Anagrams

• alster, arslet, laters, salter