auster

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔːstə(ɹ)/, /ˈɒstə(ɹ)/

auster

1. Alternative letter-case form of Auster (“the south wind”)

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

• Sauter, Sutera, Tauers, Uretas, sauter, urates

From Latin austērus.

auster (feminine austera, masculine plural austers, feminine plural austeres)

1. austere

• austerament

• austeritat

• “auster” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “auster”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “auster” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “auster” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯s.ter/, [ˈäu̯s̠t̪ɛr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯s.ter/, [ˈäu̯st̪er]

auster m (genitive austrī); second declension

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

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

• (south wind): merīdiēs

• (north wind): boreās, septentriō

• “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
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “auster”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 25: Refonte Apaideutos–Azymus, page 1065

From Old Norse austr.

auster m (definite singular austeren, indefinite plural austrar, definite plural austrane)

1. an act of scooping up something
2. (amount of) water which should be drained from a boat

auster f (definite singular austra, indefinite plural austrer, definite plural austrene)

1. a big ladle

• ausa, ause (verb)

• “auster” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From French austère, from Latin austerus.

auster m or n (feminine singular austeră, masculine plural austeri, feminine and neuter plural austere)

1. austere

• austeritate