different between seter vs ester

English

Etymology 1

See saeter.

Noun

seter (plural seters)

1. Alternative spelling of saeter
   • 1964, Reidar Christiansen, Folktales of Norway, page 114:

     Every summer, a long long time ago, they went up to the seter with the cows from Melbustad, in Hadeland.

   • 1968, Axel Christian Zetlitz Sømme, A geography of Norden: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, page 248:

     In Østlandet, on the contrary, the high mountain plateau, the gentle slopes and the grouping of seters in clusters permit the building of roads and therefore a modernized use of the seters.

   • 2002, Brian Roberts, Landscapes of Settlement: Prehistory to the Present, page 131:

     For example, twelfth- and thirteenth-century documents from the north of England mention place-names incorporating the term 'shield' or 'shiel', a 'shieling' being an area of summer pasture corresponding to the seters of Sweden.

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

seter (plural seters)

1. A natural terrace in solid rock, formed by waves, that marks the former position of a shoreline.
   • 1906, Eduard Suess, The Face of the Earth (Das Antlitz der Erde), page 479:

     The lowest important terrace, known as Sherbrooke-street terrace, lies at a height of 36-6 meters in the Leda clay; the next, Waterwork terrace, at a height of 67 meters, is excavated in the lower Silurian limestone, and I am not sure whether it should not be regarded as a seter.

   • 2003, The Large Wavelength Deformations of the Lithosphere ?ISBN, page 227

     As far as Suess could see from the existing maps and from the aneroid that he had wisely brought with him, the seters are also horizontal. Nowhere did Suess see any marine fossils on the seters, and neither had anybody else before him.

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

seter (plural seters)

1. A silk scarf or thin pice of cotton cloth used to consecrate a domestic animal to a deity in Mongolia.

Anagrams

• Ester, Reset, Steer, ester, estre, re-est., reest, reset, retes, steer, stere, teers, teres, terse, trees

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch ster (“star”), from Middle Dutch sterre, sterne, from Old Dutch sterro, sterno, from Proto-Germanic *sternô, *stern?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?st?r.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [s??t?r]
• Hyphenation: sê?tèr

Noun

seter or sêtèr

1. (colloquial) star, a star-shaped ornament worn on the breast to indicate rank or honour.

   Synonym: bintang

Further reading

• “seter” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

seter n pl

1. indefinite plural of sete

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse setr, sætr.

Noun

seter f (definite singular setra, indefinite plural setrar or setrer, definite plural setrane or setrene)

1. a seter

   Synonym: støl

Alternative forms

• sæter (non-standard since 2012)

Derived terms

Related terms

• sitja (“to sit”).

Etymology 2

Noun

seter f

1. indefinite plural of sete

References

• “seter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• Ester, ester, reset, reste, setre, teser, terse

English

Etymology

From German Ester, perhaps a contraction or abstraction of Essigäther (“ethyl acetate”), from Essig (“vinegar”) (from Latin acetum) and Äther (“ether”). See ether for more.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??st?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??st?/
• Rhymes: -?st?(?)
• Homophone: Esther

Noun

ester (plural esters)

1. (organic chemistry) A compound most often formed by the condensation of an alcohol and an acid, with elimination of water, which contains the functional group carbon-oxygen double bond (i.e., carbonyl) joined via carbon to another oxygen atom.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Reset, Steer, estre, re-est., reest, reset, retes, seter, steer, stere, teers, teres, terse, trees

Cornish

Noun

ester f (singulative estren)

1. oysters

Czech

Noun

ester m

1. ester

Further reading

• ester in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• ester in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology 1

Noun

ester c (singular definite esteren, plural indefinite estere)

1. Estonian

Declension

Synonyms

• estlænder

Etymology 2

From German Ester

Noun

ester c (singular definite esteren, plural indefinite estere)

1. ester

Declension

Derived terms

• polyester

References

• “ester” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from German Ester.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s.t?r/
• Hyphenation: es?ter
• Rhymes: -?st?r

Noun

ester m (plural esters, diminutive estertje n)

1. (organic chemistry) ester

Estonian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

ester (genitive estri, partitive estrit)

1. (organic chemistry) ester

Declension

French

Etymology 1

From Old French ester, from Vulgar Latin *est?, from Classical Latin st? (cf. also the juridical Medieval Latin senses), from Proto-Indo-European *steh?-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s.te/

Verb

ester

1. (law, rare) to appear
2. (archaic) to be

Conjugation

Only used in the infinitive, present participle estant and past participle esté.

Related terms

• être

Etymology 2

From German Essig-Äther (“acetic acid ethyl ester”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s.t??/

Noun

ester m (plural esters)

1. (organic chemistry) ester

Anagrams

• estre, êtres, reste, resté, stère, stéré, terse, tersé

Further reading

• “ester” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Ladin

Etymology 1

From Latin exterus, from exter.

Adjective

ester m (feminine singular estera, masculine plural esters, feminine plural esteres)

1. foreign, overseas

Etymology 2

From Latin sum.

Alternative forms

• esse
• vester
• esser

Verb

ester

1. to be

Conjugation

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

Middle English

Alternative forms

• aster, astern, eastran, estern, estre, estren, yestre

Etymology

From Old English ?aster.

Noun

ester (plural esters)

1. Easter (Christian holiday)

References

“?ster(n, n., MED14534.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

ester m (definite singular esteren, indefinite plural estere, definite plural esterne)

1. Estonian

Synonyms

• estlending, estlender

Related terms

• Estland
• estlandsk, estisk

Old French

Etymology

From Late Latin or Vulgar Latin est?, from Latin st?. Forms in -ois-, -ac-, and -ui/-eü-/-i-/-ont originates from Vulgar Latin *stite?, *stati?, and *ste? (perfect *stu?), all come from Latin stit?, statum, and st?. The second- and third-singular indicative present forms indicates that the original stress are always in the last syllable, even being affected by addition of epenthetic *i- before initial consonant clusters involving -s- (stresses are in bold, st?s ? *ist?s ? estas, estais, not *ist?s ? *eistes). Compare with estre, whose later merged and resulting some forms reflecting the forms of ester.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es?te?r/

Verb

ester

1. to be
2. to stay; to remain

Usage notes

According to the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub, "[i]t is not always possible to make a valid distinction between and ester and estre".

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. This verb is highly irregular. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

• Middle French: ester
  • French: être (in part)

References

Polish

Noun

ester m inan

1. ester (organic compound)

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From French ester.

Noun

ester m (plural esteri)

1. ester

Declension

Swedish

Noun

ester c

1. an ester
2. indefinite plural of est

Declension

Anagrams

• eters, reste, teers, teser