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-aster

suffix · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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suffix

Meaning 1

Used to form diminutive and pejorative nouns, labeling someone pretending to be what they are not.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: morpheme

Examples

  • poet + -aster → poetaster (“unskilled poet”)
  • critic + -aster → criticaster (“petty critic”)
  • pillar + -aster → pilaster (“pillar that does not provide support”)

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin -aster (“little, petty, partial, incomplete”).

Across languages

Translations

14 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Esperanto: -eto — -aster
  • Esperanto: -aĉo — -aster
  • French: -âtre — -aster
  • Ido: -eto — -aster
  • Ido: -acho — -aster
  • Interlingua: -astro — -aster
  • Interlingua: -astra — -aster
  • Northern Kurdish: -ok — -aster
  • Northern Kurdish: -ik — -aster
  • Portuguese: -astro — -aster
  • Portuguese: -acho — -aster
  • Spanish: -astro — -aster
  • Spanish: -astra — -aster
  • Spanish: -astre — -aster