The story
- Latin · learned borrowing from-aster“little, petty, partial, incomplete”
- English today-aster
Learned borrowing from Latin -aster (“little, petty, partial, incomplete”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
-aster
Today it means: Used to form diminutive and pejorative nouns, labeling someone pretending to be what they are not. Full definition →
Latin -aster