different between ouster vs auster

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /a?st?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /a?st??/
• Rhymes: -a?st?(?)

Etymology 1

From Old French ouster, oustre, a nominalization of Anglo-Norman oustre (“to oust”).

Noun

ouster (plural ousters)

1. (historical) A putting out of possession; dispossession; ejection.
2. (property law) Action by a cotenant that prevents another cotenant from enjoying the use of jointly owned property.
3. (now chiefly US) Specifically, the forceful removal of a politician or regime from power; coup.

Translations

Verb

ouster (third-person singular simple present ousters, present participle oustering, simple past and past participle oustered)

1. To oust.

Etymology 2

oust +? -er

Noun

ouster (plural ousters)

1. (Britain) Someone who ousts.

Anagrams

• Souter, Toures, outers, rouets, routes, souter, touser, trouse

Old French

Verb

ouster

1. (chiefly Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of oster

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.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???st?(?)/, /??st?(?)/

Noun

auster

1. The south wind.

Synonyms

• southerly
• ostro

Antonyms

• boreas

Translations

References

• auster in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Sauter, Sutera, Tauers, Uretas, sauter, urates

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin aust?rus.

Adjective

auster (feminine austera, masculine plural austers, feminine plural austeres)

1. austere

Derived terms

• austerament

Related terms

• austeritat

Further reading

• “auster” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “auster” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “auster” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “auster” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h?ews- (“dawn”). Cognate with Latin aur?ra, English east.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?au?s.ter/, [?äu?s?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?au?s.ter/, [??u?st??r]

Noun

auster m (genitive austr?); second declension

1. The south wind
2. south (compass direction)

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

Synonyms

• (south wind): mer?di?s

Antonyms

• (north wind): bore?s, septentri?

Derived terms

Descendants

• Aromanian: austru
• Italian: ostro
  • ? English: ostro
• Old French: ostre
• Romanian: austru
• Spanish: austro

References

• auster in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• auster in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• auster in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse austr.

Noun 1

auster m (definite singular austeren, indefinite plural austrar, definite plural austrane)

1. an act of scooping up something
2. (amount of) water which should be drained from a boat

Noun 2

auster f (definite singular austra, indefinite plural austrer, definite plural austrene)

1. a big ladle

Related terms

• ausa, ause (verb)

References

• “auster” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

From French austère, from Latin austerus.

Adjective

auster m or n (feminine singular auster?, masculine plural austeri, feminine and neuter plural austere)

1. austere

Declension

Related terms

• austeritate