-asteryoudaoicibaDictYouDict[-aster 词源字典]
word-forming element expressing incomplete resemblance (such as poetaster), usually diminutive and deprecatory, from Latin -aster, from a suffix forming nouns from verbs ending in Greek -azein; in later Latin generalized as a pejorative suffix, as in patraster "he who plays the father."[-aster etymology, -aster origin, 英语词源]