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},
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"pos": "suffix",
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"text": "poet + -aster → poetaster (“unskilled poet”)",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "critic + -aster → criticaster (“petty critic”)",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "pillar + -aster → pilaster (“pillar that does not provide support”)",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"Used to form diminutive and pejorative nouns, labeling someone pretending to be what they are not."
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"sense": "-aster",
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"diminutive"
],
"word": "-eto"
},
{
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],
"word": "-aĉo"
},
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "-aster",
"word": "-âtre"
},
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{
"code": "io",
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],
"word": "-acho"
},
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"sense": "-aster",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "-astro"
},
{
"code": "ia",
"lang": "Interlingua",
"sense": "-aster",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-astra"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "-aster",
"word": "-ok"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "-aster",
"word": "-ik"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "-aster",
"word": "-astro"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "-aster",
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},
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"sense": "-aster",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "-astro"
},
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-astra"
},
{
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],
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}
]
}
],
"word": "-aster"
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"text": "poet + -aster → poetaster (“unskilled poet”)",
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},
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"text": "critic + -aster → criticaster (“petty critic”)",
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},
{
"text": "pillar + -aster → pilaster (“pillar that does not provide support”)",
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}
],
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],
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},
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],
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],
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},
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"word": "-ok"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "-aster",
"word": "-ik"
},
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"sense": "-aster",
"word": "-astro"
},
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"sense": "-aster",
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},
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"sense": "-aster",
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