coster

coster (plural costers)

1. Clipping of costermonger.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.

2. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Acraea.

• torces, c-store, corset, sector, rectos, scoter, Tresco, Cortes, recost, Ectors, Certos, scrote, escort

From costa +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kusˈte]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kosˈte]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kosˈteɾ]

coster (feminine costera, masculine plural costers, feminine plural costeres)

1. sloping, steep
2. (relational) side; lateral

coster m (plural costers)

1. slope

   Synonyms: costa, pendant, pujada

2. (architecture) rafter, gable end

   Synonym: biga

• “coster” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Latin cōnstāre, present active infinitive of cōnstō.

coster

1. To cost

• Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

• couster

From Latin cōnstāre, present active infinitive of cōnstō.

coster

1. to cost (have a certain cost)

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-sts, *-stt are modified to z, st. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• Middle French: couster
  • French: coûter
• Norman: couôter, coûtaïr (Guernsey)
• → Dutch: kosten
• → Middle English: costen
  • English: cost
  • Scots: cost
• → Middle High German: kosten
  • Cimbrian: khostan, khòstan (Sette Comuni)
  • German: kosten
  • Mòcheno: kosten