Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to asterisk
Participle: asterisked
Gerund: asterisking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | asterisk |
| you | asterisk |
| he;she;it | asterisks |
| we | asterisk |
| you | asterisk |
| they | asterisk |
Perfect
| I | have asterisked |
| you | have asterisked |
| he;she;it | has asterisked |
| we | have asterisked |
| you | have asterisked |
| they | have asterisked |
Past
| I | asterisked |
| you | asterisked |
| he;she;it | asterisked |
| we | asterisked |
| you | asterisked |
| they | asterisked |
Pluperfect
| I | had asterisked |
| you | had asterisked |
| he;she;it | had asterisked |
| we | had asterisked |
| you | had asterisked |
| they | had asterisked |
Future
| I | will asterisk |
| you | will asterisk |
| he;she;it | will asterisk |
| we | will asterisk |
| you | will asterisk |
| they | will asterisk |
Future Perfect
| I | will have asterisked |
| you | will have asterisked |
| he;she;it | will have asterisked |
| we | will have asterisked |
| you | will have asterisked |
| they | will have asterisked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | asterisk |
| you | asterisk |
| he;she;it | asterisk |
| we | asterisk |
| you | asterisk |
| they | asterisk |
Perfect
| I | have asterisked |
| you | have asterisked |
| he;she;it | have asterisked |
| we | have asterisked |
| you | have asterisked |
| they | have asterisked |
Imperfect
| I | asterisked |
| you | asterisked |
| he;she;it | asterisked |
| we | asterisked |
| you | asterisked |
| they | asterisked |
Pluperfect
| I | had asterisked |
| you | had asterisked |
| he;she;it | had asterisked |
| we | had asterisked |
| you | had asterisked |
| they | had asterisked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would asterisk |
| you | would asterisk |
| he;she;it | would asterisk |
| we | would asterisk |
| you | would asterisk |
| they | would asterisk |
Perfect
| I | would have asterisked |
| you | would have asterisked |
| he;she;it | would have asterisked |
| we | would have asterisked |
| you | would have asterisked |
| they | would have asterisked |
Imperative
| you | asterisk |
| we | Let's asterisk |
| you | asterisk |
Verbs conjugated like 'asterisk'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'asterisk'
rasterise,
absterse,
asperse,
astert,
astonish,
astrict,
atrist,
attrist,
bacterise,
cauterise,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr
5. Proto-Hellenic *astḗr
6. Ancient Greek ᾰ̓στήρ (ăstḗr)
7. Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
8. Ancient Greek -ῐ́σκος (-ĭ́skos)
9. Ancient Greek ἀστερῐ́σκος (asterĭ́skos)bor.
10. Late Latin asteriscusder.
11. Middle English asterisk
12. English asterisk
13. The noun is derived from Middle English asterisk [and other forms], from Late Latin asteriscus (“asterisk; small star”), from Ancient Greek ἀστερῐ́σκος (asterĭ́skos, “asterisk; small star”), from ᾰ̓στήρ (ăstḗr, “celestial body (star, planet, and other lights in the sky such as meteors)”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs- (“to burn; to glow”)) + -ῐ́σκος (-ĭ́skos, diminutive suffix). Doublet of asteriscus and piecewise doublet of starrish.
14. Noun sense 1.1.2 (“something which is of little importance or which is marginal”) refers to the use of an asterisk to denote a footnote or marginal note in a text; in other words, information that is not important enough to be incorporated into the main text. Noun sense 1.1.3 (“blemish in an otherwise outstanding achievement”) refers to the use of an asterisk in a sporting record to indicate that the record is qualified in some manner (for example, that the sportsperson was found to have taken performance-enhancing drugs at the time).
15. The verb is derived from the noun.
Sample Sentences
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Bank of New Zealand Estates Company Share Account now stands, as we have already seen, at £1,089,722 17s. 7d., a reduction of £760,177 2s. 5d. having been effected by the writing off of share capital. But from the point of view of its intrinsic value, the item has still to be dealt with, being asterisked in the balance sheet as follows: […] [1896 August, The Australasian Insurance, Banking Record, quotees, “The Bank of New Zealand’s Balance Sheet”, in Clement H. Davis, editor, The Bankers’ Magazine of Australasia. An Illustrated Monthly, volume X, number 1, Melbourne, Vic.: Bankers’ Instituteo of Australasia, →OCLC, page 43:]
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She was determined to make the most of the trip, extracting some cultural capital from the emotional waste, and so read carefully through the Venice guidebooks she had brought, underlining the must-dos and asterisking the should-dos. [2003, Rebecca Campbell, “Odette in Venice”, in Slave to Love […], New York, N.Y.: Villard Books, →ISBN, page 95:]
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[Alain] Jaubert's preface is the longest and most detailed in our corpus; […] It covers both [Edgar Allan] Poe's work in general and the specific content of the volume (Jaubert, ingeniously, adopts an ad hoc typographical device, asterisking the references to the tales of his volume). [2020, Christopher Rollason, “Popular Poe Anthologies in the United Kingdom and France”, in Emron Esplin, Margarida Vale de Gato, editors, Anthologizing Poe: Editions, Translations, and (Trans)National Canons, Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University Press; Lanham, Md.; London: The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, →ISBN, part IV (Wor(l)ding Poe Abroad: Anthologizers, Editors, Illustrators, and Translators), page 289:]