different between lauter vs laster

English

Etymology

From German lauter (“pure, clear”, adjective). Began to become common in English in the 1880s.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /la?t?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /la?t?(?)/

Adjective

lauter (not comparable)

1. (brewing, of mash, only attributive) Clear.
   • 1905, Pure Products, volume 1, page 176:

     The practice in the Munich brewery made it plain that the object of the drawing off of the thick mash is to completely separate the thick mash from the lauter mash.

   • 1992, Eric Warner, German Wheat Beer ?ISBN:

     Since the husks and coarse grits are essential for distancing grist particles from one another in the lauter mash, their diminished presence in wheat beer worts will impede the lautering process.

   • 2003, Gregory J. Noonan, New Brewing Lager Beer: The Most Comprehensive Book ?ISBN:

     The thin lauter mash is quickly transferred to the tun, given a last thorough stirring, and allowed to settle.

Verb

lauter (third-person singular simple present lauters, present participle lautering, simple past and past participle lautered)

1. (brewing, transitive) To subject to lautering.

References

Anagrams

• Tulare, at-rule, uretal, uteral

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la??t?/

Etymology 1

From Middle High German l?ter, from Old High German hl?ttar, from Proto-Germanic *hl?traz. Compare Dutch louter (German in form), Gothic ???????????????????????? (hl?trs).

Adjective

lauter (comparative lauterer or lautrer, superlative am lautersten)

1. (formal) sincere; honorable; of integrity; correct

2. (formal, literary, most often of metal) genuine; pure

3. (colloquial, uninflected, not comparable) a lot of; a bunch of; much; many; several

Declension

Synonyms

• (sincere): aufrichtig; ehrenhaft
• (genuine): echt
• (a lot): eine Menge; etliche; einige; viel; alle möglichen

Derived terms

• Lauterkeit
• läutern
• unlauter

Adverb

lauter

1. (formal) in a sincere, honorable, correct manner; with integrity

2. (colloquial) just; only; exclusively; often best translated with all

Usage notes

• It is somewhat arbitrary to separate the sense “a lot, a bunch” (see the adjective) from the sense “exclusively, only” (adverb). Both often overlap and are not explicitly distinct in their construction. The distinction uninflected adjective versus adverb has been chosen here for simplicity, that is because the German synonyms and English translations tend to be of the respective parts of speech. — It may be well possible to analyse both senses as either adjectives or adverbs.

Synonyms

• ausschließlich
• lediglich
• nur
• alles

Etymology 2

Adjective

lauter

1. comparative degree of laut

Adjective

lauter

1. inflection of laut:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

Further reading

• “lauter” in Duden online
• “lauter” in Duden online

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