different between slater vs stater

English

Etymology

From Middle English sclater, equivalent to slate +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sle?t?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sle?t?/
• Rhymes: -e?t?(?)

Noun

slater (plural slaters)

1. One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
2. Any terrestrial isopod crustacean of the genus Porcellio and allied genera; a woodlouse.
3. A harsh critic; one who slates or denigrates something.
   • 1901, The Critic (volume 39, page 562)

     Plain speaking, now and then, is very necessary. The author will call the critic a “blackguard slater," of course, but he need not be a blackguard. Ferocity of language only hurts his effect.

Translations

See also

• butcher boy
• sowbug
• woodlouse
• sai bug
• saisai gnat

Anagrams

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

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ste?t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ste?t?/
• Rhymes: -e?t?(?)

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ?????? (stat?r).

Noun

stater (plural staters)

1. A gold, silver or electrum coin of ancient Greece.

Translations

Etymology 2

state +? -er

Noun

stater (plural staters)

1. One who states.

   a stater of truths or opinions

2. A citizen of the United States of America who is a confirmed or lifelong resident of one single state.

See also

• trite
• hekte

Anagrams

• Rattes, Satter, Strate, Treats, at rest, atters, ratest, rattes, tarest, taster, taters, tetras, treats

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (stat?r).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

stater m (genitive stateris); third declension

1. A small silver coin, value four drachmas, used in Jewish lands

Declension

Third-declension noun.

References

• stater in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• stater in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• stater in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• stater in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

stater m

1. indefinite plural of stat

Swedish

Noun

stater

1. indefinite plural of stat

Anagrams

• ersatt, retats, testar