different between stager vs stater

English

Etymology

stage +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?d??(r)

Noun

stager (plural stagers)

1. An actor on the stage.
2. One who stages a theatrical performance.
   • 1994, Richard Beadle, The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre (page 271)

     Here the principal stagers of saints' plays appear to have been the civic authorities, and guilds or confreries, and the popularity of this type of drama owed much to the cult of saints […]

3. One who has long acted on the stage of life; a practitioner; a person of experience, or of skill derived from long experience.
4. A horse used in drawing a stagecoach.

Anagrams

• 'Gaters, Greats, Strega, gaster, grates, greats, ragest, retags, targes

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