auster

See also: Auster

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for auster in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɔːstə(ɹ)/, /ˈɒstə(ɹ)/

Noun

auster

  1. The south wind.

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Translations
auster(wind) — see ostro

References
  • auster in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- (“dawn”). Cognate with Latin aurōra, English east.

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈau̯s.ter/, [ˈau̯s.tɛr]

Noun

auster m (genitive austrī); second declension

  1. The south wind
  2. south (compass direction)

Inflection

Second declension, nominative singular in -er.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative auster austrī
Genitive austrī austrōrum
Dative austrō austrīs
Accusative austrum austrōs
Ablative austrō austrīs
Vocative auster austrī

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Descendants

References
  • auster in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • auster in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • auster in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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