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• IPA^(key): /ˈɔːstɚ/, /ˈɒstɚ/

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auster

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

• “auster”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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

Borrowed from Latin austērus.

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [əwsˈte̞r]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central) [əwsˈter]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [awsˈter]

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

1. austere

• austerament

• austeritat

• “auster”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “auster”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “auster” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “auster”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

From Proto-Italic *austeros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwsteros,^[1] from *h₂ews- (“dawn”). Cognate with Latin aurōra, English east, German Ost.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈau̯s.tɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈau̯s.ter]

auster m (genitive austrī); second declension

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

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

• (antonym(s) of “south wind”): boreās, septentriō

compass points:  ^[edit]

	septentriō boreās
occidēns occāsus		oriēns eurus
	merīdiēs auster

• “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.

Borrowed from French austère, from Latin austerus.

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

1. austere

• austeritate