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Yes. The word aster is a Scrabble US word. The word aster is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word aster is a Scrabble UK word and has 5 points:

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5-letter words (13 found)

ARETS,ASTER,EARST,RATES,REAST,RESAT,STARE,STEAR,STRAE,TARES,TASER,TEARS,TERAS,

4-letter words (31 found)

ARES,ARET,ARSE,ARTS,ATES,EARS,EAST,EATS,ERAS,ERST,ETAS,RASE,RAST,RATE,RATS,REST,RETS,SATE,SEAR,SEAT,SERA,SETA,STAR,TAES,TARE,TARS,TASE,TEAR,TEAS,TRES,TSAR,

3-letter words (27 found)

ARE,ARS,ART,ATE,ATS,EAR,EAS,EAT,ERA,ERS,EST,ETA,RAS,RAT,RES,RET,SAE,SAR,SAT,SEA,SER,SET,TAE,TAR,TAS,TEA,TES,

2-letter words (12 found)

AE,AR,AS,AT,EA,ER,ES,ET,RE,ST,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 84 words from aster according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of aster

aster

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Latin astēr, from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr). Doublet of star, stella, étoile, and estoile.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈæs.tə(ɹ)/
  • Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)

Noun

aster (plural asters)

  1. Any of several plants of the genus Aster; one of its flowers.
  2. (biology) A star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell.
  3. (obsolete) A star.
    • , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.94:
      by the changes and enter-caprings of which, the revolutions, motions, cadences, and carrols of the asters [translating astres] and planets are caused and transported.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • astro-

Descendants

  • → Cebuano: aster
  • → Esperanto: astero

Translations

Anagrams

  • teras, earst, reast, treas., taser, setar, stare, TASer, arste, Stear, sater, stear, tares, Satre, tarse, Sater, arets, tears, resat, rates, Aerts, Aters, Tesar, 'earts, Taser

Cebuano

Etymology

From English aster, from Latin astēr, from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: as‧ter

Noun

aster

  1. an aster; any of several plants of the genus Aster
  2. the flower of these plants

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin astēr, from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr). Named after the flower's semblance to a star.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑs.tər/
  • Hyphenation: as‧ter
  • Rhymes: -ɑstər

Noun

aster f (plural asters, diminutive astertje n)

  1. aster, flowering plant of the genus Aster
  2. a flower from this plant

Derived terms

Further reading

  • aster on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl

French

Etymology

From Middle French aster, from Latin astēr, from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓στήρ (ăstḗr). Doublet of star.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /as.tɛʁ/

Noun

aster m (plural asters)

  1. aster (flowering plant)

Descendants

  • → Romanian: aster

Further reading

  • “aster”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr). See also Latin astrum and the inherited stēlla.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈas.teːr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈas.t̪er]

Noun

astēr m (genitive asteris); third declension

  1. A star
    Synonyms: astrum, stēlla, sīdus
  2. Aster amellus (Italian starwort)

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, variant with nominative singular in -ēr).

Descendants

  • → English: aster
    • → Cebuano: aster
    • → Esperanto: astero
  • → German: Aster
    • → Esperanto: astero
    • → Ukrainian: а́йстра (ájstra)
  • → Middle French: aster
    • French: aster
      • → Romanian: aster
  • Translingual: Aster, Thalassianthus aster

References

  • “aster”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • aster in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “aster”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎[1]

Mauritian Creole

Alternative forms

  • asterla

Etymology 1

From French à cette heure (“at this hour”).

Adverb

aster

  1. now
  2. at this moment

Etymology 2

From French acheteur.

Noun

aster

  1. buyer

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin Astēr. Doublet of Stela and Stella.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈas.tɛr/
  • Rhymes: -astɛr
  • Syllabification: as‧ter
  • Homophone: Aster

Noun

aster m inan

  1. aster (any plant of the genus Aster)

Declension

Further reading

  • aster in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • aster in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • aster in PWN's encyclopedia

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French aster. Doublet of star and stea.

Noun

aster m (plural asteri)

  1. aster

Declension

References

  • aster in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

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