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title="asterisk – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="asterisk" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisk" title="asterisk – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="asterisk" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisk" title="asterisk – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="asterisk" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisk" title="asterisk – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="asterisk" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisk" title="asterisk – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="asterisk" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisk" title="asterisk – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="asterisk" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisk" title="asterisk – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="asterisk" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisk" title="asterisk – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="asterisk" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisk" title="asterisk – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="asterisk" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisk" title="asterisk – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="asterisk" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisk" title="asterisk – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="asterisk" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-li mw-list-item"><a href="https://li.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisk" title="asterisk – Limburgish" lang="li" hreflang="li" data-title="asterisk" data-language-autonym="Limburgs" data-language-local-name="Limburgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Limburgs</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisk" title="asterisk – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="asterisk" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisk" title="asterisk – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="asterisk" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisk" title="asterisk – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="asterisk" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisk" title="asterisk – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="asterisk" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisk" title="asterisk – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="asterisk" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisk" title="asterisk – Norwegian" lang="no" hreflang="no" data-title="asterisk" data-language-autonym="Norsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-om mw-list-item"><a href="https://om.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisk" title="asterisk – Oromo" lang="om" hreflang="om" data-title="asterisk" data-language-autonym="Oromoo" data-language-local-name="Oromo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oromoo</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisk" title="asterisk – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="asterisk" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisk" title="asterisk – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="asterisk" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sa mw-list-item"><a href="https://sa.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisk" title="asterisk – Sanskrit" lang="sa" hreflang="sa" data-title="asterisk" data-language-autonym="संस्कृतम्" data-language-local-name="Sanskrit" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>संस्कृतम्</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisk" title="asterisk – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="asterisk" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisk" title="asterisk – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="asterisk" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisk" title="asterisk – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="asterisk" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisk" title="asterisk – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="asterisk" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisk" title="asterisk – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="asterisk" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-shn mw-list-item"><a href="https://shn.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisk" title="asterisk – Shan" lang="shn" hreflang="shn" data-title="asterisk" data-language-autonym="ၽႃႇသႃႇတႆး " data-language-local-name="Shan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ၽႃႇသႃႇတႆး </span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-te mw-list-item"><a href="https://te.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisk" title="asterisk – Telugu" lang="te" hreflang="te" data-title="asterisk" data-language-autonym="తెలుగు" data-language-local-name="Telugu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>తెలుగు</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisk" title="asterisk – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="asterisk" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisk" title="asterisk – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="asterisk" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>اردو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisk" title="asterisk – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="asterisk" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tiếng Việt</span></a></li><li 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style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Dialpad_detail_on_telephone_Posttelefon_FeTAp_751.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Dialpad_detail_on_telephone_Posttelefon_FeTAp_751.JPG/200px-Dialpad_detail_on_telephone_Posttelefon_FeTAp_751.JPG" decoding="async" width="200" height="112" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Dialpad_detail_on_telephone_Posttelefon_FeTAp_751.JPG/300px-Dialpad_detail_on_telephone_Posttelefon_FeTAp_751.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Dialpad_detail_on_telephone_Posttelefon_FeTAp_751.JPG/400px-Dialpad_detail_on_telephone_Posttelefon_FeTAp_751.JPG 2x" data-file-width="434" data-file-height="242" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">An asterisk <a href="/wiki/key#Noun" title="key">key</a> <i>(bottom left; <a href="#English:_symbol">sense 1.1</a>)</i> on the <a href="/wiki/dialing#Noun" title="dialing">dialing</a> <a href="/wiki/pad#Noun" title="pad">pad</a> of a <a href="/wiki/telephone#Noun" title="telephone">telephone</a>.</div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Asterisk_on_the_diskos.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Asterisk_on_the_diskos.jpg/200px-Asterisk_on_the_diskos.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="209" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Asterisk_on_the_diskos.jpg/300px-Asterisk_on_the_diskos.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Asterisk_on_the_diskos.jpg/400px-Asterisk_on_the_diskos.jpg 2x" data-file-width="969" data-file-height="1011" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">An asterisk <i>(<a href="#English:_Christianity">sense 1.2</a>)</i> placed on a <a href="/wiki/diskos" title="diskos">diskos</a>.</div></div></div></div></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#noun" title="Appendix:Glossary">noun</a> is derived from <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English" class="extiw" title="w:Middle English">Middle English</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="enm"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Middle_English">asterisk</a></i><span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b">[</span><span title="asterichos, astericus">and other forms</span><span class="q-hellip-b">]</span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span>,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> from <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Latin" class="extiw" title="w:Late Latin">Late Latin</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="la"><a href="/wiki/asteriscus#Latin" title="asteriscus">asteriscus</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">asterisk; small star</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, from <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek" class="extiw" title="w:Ancient Greek">Ancient Greek</a></span> <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%E1%BC%80%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%AF%CF%83%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%82#Ancient_Greek" title="ἀστερίσκος">ἀστερῐ́σκος</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="grc-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">asterĭ́skos</span>, <span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">asterisk; small star</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, from <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%E1%BC%80%CF%83%CF%84%CE%AE%CF%81#Ancient_Greek" title="ἀστήρ">ᾰ̓στήρ</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="grc-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">ăstḗr</span>, <span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">celestial body (star, planet, and other lights in the sky such as meteors)</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (ultimately from <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language" class="extiw" title="w:Proto-Indo-European language">Proto-Indo-European</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="ine-pro"><a href="/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h%E2%82%82eHs-" title="Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₂eHs-">*h₂eHs-</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">to burn; to glow</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>) + <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/-%CE%AF%CF%83%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%82#Ancient_Greek" title="-ίσκος">-ῐ́σκος</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="grc-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">-ĭ́skos</span>, <span class="ann-pos"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#diminutive" title="Appendix:Glossary">diminutive</a> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#suffix" title="Appendix:Glossary">suffix</a></span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>. </p><p><a href="#English:_marginal">Sense 1.1.2</a> (“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. <a href="#English:_sports">Sense 1.1.3</a> (“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).<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#verb" title="Appendix:Glossary">verb</a> is derived from the noun.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pronunciation">Pronunciation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=asterisk&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Pronunciation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content"><span class="usage-label-accent"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation" class="extiw" title="w:Received Pronunciation">Received Pronunciation</a></span></span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a><sup>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:English_pronunciation" title="Appendix:English pronunciation">key</a>)</sup>: <span class="IPA">/ˈæstəɹɪsk/</span>, <span class="IPA">/ˈæstɹɪsk/</span></li> <li><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content"><span class="usage-label-accent"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American_English" class="extiw" title="w:General American English">General American</a></span></span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a><sup>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:English_pronunciation" title="Appendix:English pronunciation">key</a>)</sup>: <span class="IPA">/ˈæstəˌɹɪsk/</span>, <span class="IPA">/ˈæst(ə)ˌɹɪks/</span></li> <li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r50165410">.mw-parser-output .k-player .k-attribution{visibility:hidden}</style><table class="audiotable" style="vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; list-style: none; line-height: 1em; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0;"><tbody><tr><td>Audio <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="usage-label-accent"><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American_English" class="extiw" title="w:General American English">General American</a></span></span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span><span class="ib-colon qualifier-colon">:</span></td><td class="audiofile"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_0" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="175" style="width:175px;" data-durationhint="2" data-mwtitle="En-us-asterisk.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/En-us-asterisk.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/48/En-us-asterisk.ogg/En-us-asterisk.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span></td><td class="audiometa" style="font-size: 80%;">(<a href="/wiki/File:En-us-asterisk.ogg" title="File:En-us-asterisk.ogg">file</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table></li> <li>Hyphenation: <span class="Latn" lang="en">as‧ter‧isk</span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Noun">Noun</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=asterisk&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Noun"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="en">asterisk</strong> (<i>plural</i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-en p-form-of" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/asterisks#English" title="asterisks">asterisks</a></b>)</span> </p> <ol><li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#dated" title="Appendix:Glossary">dated</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> A <a href="/wiki/small#Adjective" title="small">small</a> <a href="/wiki/star#Noun" title="star">star</a>; also <span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content">by extension</span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span>, something <a href="/wiki/resemble" title="resemble">resembling</a> or <a href="/wiki/shaped#Adjective" title="shaped">shaped</a> like a star. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><i><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#c." title="Appendix:Glossary"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr></a></i> <b>1670s</b> (date written), Thomas Brown [<i>i.e.</i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Browne" class="extiw" title="w:Thomas Browne">Thomas Browne</a>], “Sect<span class="quote-note"><span class="quote-gloss-brac">[</span><span class="quote-gloss-content">ion</span><span class="quote-gloss-brac">]</span></span> XXXII”, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jeffery_(priest)" class="extiw" title="w:John Jeffery (priest)">John Jeffery</a>, editor, <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Morals" class="extiw" title="w:Christian Morals">Christian Morals,<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="by Sr Thomas Brown, of Norwich, M.D. and Author of Religio Medici. Published from the Original and Correct Manuscript of the Author; by John Jeffery, D.D. Arch-deacon of Norwich.">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span></a></cite>, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: <span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="Printed">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"> </span> <span style="font-style: normal;">[</span>A<span style="font-style: normal;">]</span>t the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_University_Press" class="extiw" title="w:Cambridge University Press">University-Press</a>, for Cornelius Crownfield printer to the University; and are to be sold by Mr. Knapton<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="at the Crown in St. Paul’s Church-yard">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span>; and Mr. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Morphew" class="extiw" title="w:John Morphew"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span>John<span style="font-style: normal;">]</span> Morphew</a><span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="near Stationers-Hall, London">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span>, published <span class="None" lang="und">1716</span>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/993120297">→OCLC</a></small>, part I, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=OU2HfDLaEasC&pg=PA38">page <span class="None" lang="und">38</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Add one Ray unto the common Luſtre; add not only to the Number but the Note of thy Generation; and prove not a Cloud but an <b>Aſteriſk</b> in thy Region.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul> <ol><li class="mw-empty-elt"></li><li class="senseid" id="English:_symbol" data-lang="en" data-id="symbol"> The <a href="/wiki/starshaped" title="starshaped">star-shaped</a> <a href="/wiki/symbol#Noun" title="symbol">symbol</a> <a href="/wiki/*" title="*">*</a>, which is <a href="/wiki/use#Verb" title="use">used</a> in <a href="/wiki/printing#Noun" title="printing">printing</a> and <a href="/wiki/writing#Noun" title="writing">writing</a> for various <a href="/wiki/purpose#Noun" title="purpose">purposes</a>, including to <a href="/wiki/refer#Verb" title="refer">refer</a> a <a href="/wiki/reader" title="reader">reader</a> to a <a href="/wiki/note#Noun" title="note">note</a> at the <a href="/wiki/bottom#Noun" title="bottom">bottom</a> of a <a href="/wiki/page#Noun" title="page">page</a> or in a <a href="/wiki/margin#Noun" title="margin">margin</a>, and to <a href="/wiki/indicate" title="indicate">indicate</a> the <a href="/wiki/omission" title="omission">omission</a> of <a href="/wiki/letter#Noun" title="letter">letters</a> or <a href="/wiki/word#Noun" title="word">words</a>; a star. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1754</b></span>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edwards_(critic)" class="extiw" title="w:Thomas Edwards (critic)">Thomas Edwards</a>, “Canon XVIII. He may Explane His Author, or Any Former Editor of Him; by Supplying Such Words, or Pieces of Words, or Marks, as He Thinks Fit for that Purpose.”, in <cite>The Canons of Criticism, and Glossary;<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="The Trial of the Letter Υ, alias Y, and Sonnets.">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span></cite>, 6th edition, London: <span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="Printed for">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"> </span> C. Bathurst,<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="opposite St. Dunstan’s Church in Fleet-street.">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/221349948">→OCLC</a></small>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=s00JAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA157">page <span class="None" lang="und">157</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">He is in the right to put the <b>Aſteriſks</b>, not the VVords into the text; becauſe They do indeed give us [notice, that there is in Them] as much additional meaning, as there vvould be in thoſe vvords vvhich they ſo properly repreſent.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1837</b></span>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letitia_Elizabeth_Landon" class="extiw" title="w:Letitia Elizabeth Landon">L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon]</a>, “Publishing”, in <cite>Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides.<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="By the Author of “The Improvvisatrice,” “Francesca Carrara,” “Traits and Trials of Early Life,” etc. etc. [...] In Three Volumes.">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span></cite>, volume II, London: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Colburn" class="extiw" title="w:Henry Colburn">Henry Colburn</a>,<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="publisher, Great Marlborough Street.">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/21345056">→OCLC</a></small>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/ethelchurchillor02lell/page/13/mode/1up">page <span class="None" lang="und">13</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">I having been looking at your pamphlet, and shewing it, but I mention no names. I don't see the use of names, for my part, unless it be to put in <b>asterisks</b>. It is—yes—very, indeed.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source">[<span class="None" lang="und"><b>1849</b></span>, M. J. B. Silvestre, “Plate LXI. Square Uncial Greek Writing. IVth. or Vth. Century. Fragments of the Greek Pentateuch, in the Bibliothèque Royale.”, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Madden" class="extiw" title="w:Frederic Madden">Frederic Madden</a>, transl., <cite>Universal Palæography: Or, Fac-similes of Writings of All Nations and Periods,<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="Copied from the Most Celebrated and Authentic Manuscripts in the Libraries and Archives of France, Italy, Germany, and England, by M. J. B. Silvestre. Accompanied by an Historical and Descriptive Text and Introduction, by Champollion-Figeac and Aimé Champollion, Fils. Translated from the French, and Edited, with Corrections and Notes, by Sir Frederic Madden, K.H., F.R.S., M.R.I.A, Keeper of the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum. In Two Volumes.">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span></cite>, volume I, London: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George_Bohn" class="extiw" title="w:Henry George Bohn">Henry G<span style="font-style: normal;">[</span>eorge<span style="font-style: normal;">]</span> Bohn</a>,<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="York Street, Covent Garden.">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/1014206205">→OCLC</a></small>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=DKNLAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA163">page <span class="None" lang="und">163</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">There is no punctuation, but three signs are used, namely, 1st, the <b>asterisc</b> (<a href="/wiki/%E2%80%BB#English" title="※">※</a>); 2nd, the obelus (—:); and 3rd, the two dots (:). The <b>asteriscs</b> indicate the words of the Hebrew text, not admitted by the Seventy into their Greek version, which words are included between the <b>asterisc</b> and the two dots; <span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b">[</span>…<span class="q-hellip-b">]</span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span></span><dl><dd><span class="e-footer"><span style="font-size:85%;">Used to refer to a different symbol.</span></span>]</dd></dl></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1869</b></span>, “Notices Useful to the Foreigner”, in <cite>One Week at Venice: Illustrated Guide for Visiting Every Thing Worthy of Consideration</cite>, Venice: Colombo Coen’s New Library,<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="St Mark’s Square, 140, Old Procuratives">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/83998874">→OCLC</a></small>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=LUUWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA128">page <span class="None" lang="und">128</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">The Hôtels marked with one <b>asterisc</b> are Restaurants also. Those marked with two <b>asteriscs</b> have Table d'Hôte.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1960</b></span> December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is Opened”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Railways" class="extiw" title="w:Modern Railways">Trains Illustrated</a></cite>, London: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Allan_Publishing" class="extiw" title="w:Ian Allan Publishing">Ian Allan Publishing</a>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0141-9935">→ISSN</a></small>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/35845948">→OCLC</a></small>, page <span class="None" lang="und">714</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Above all, the 48-page timetables of the new service, which have been distributed free at every station in the scheme, are a model to the rest of B.R. For the first time on British Railways, so far as we are aware, a substantial timetable has been produced, not only without a single footnote but also devoid of all wearisome <b>asterisks</b>, stars, letter suffixes and other hieroglyphics.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><b>1998</b> February 16, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Heilpern" class="extiw" title="w:John Heilpern">John Heilpern</a>, “Shopping and Fucking: Is that all there is?”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Observer" class="extiw" title="w:The Observer">The Observer</a></cite>‎<sup><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220517132905/https://observer.com/1998/02/shopping-and-fucking-is-that-all-there-is/">[2]</a></sup>, London: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian_Media_Group" class="extiw" title="w:Guardian Media Group">Guardian News & Media</a>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0029-7712">→ISSN</a></small>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/757609252">→OCLC</a></small>, archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://observer.com/1998/02/shopping-and-fucking-is-that-all-there-is/">the original</a> on <span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2022-05-17">2022-05-17</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">On the other hand, The New York Times favors the 'it doesn't exist' formula. It has prudishly renamed the play Shopping and … [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ravenhill" class="extiw" title="w:Mark Ravenhill">Mark Ravenhill</a>'s play <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_and_Fucking" class="extiw" title="w:Shopping and Fucking">Shopping and Fucking</a></i> (1996)] Everyone does it, no one will name it! The Times doesn’t even give it an <b>asterisk</b> or two. Three little dots must suffice. "How was it for you, my darling?" "That was the greatest three little dots I ever had in my life!"</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2012</b></span>, Úrsula Flores-Perez, Manuel Rodriguez-Concepcion, “Carotenoids”, in Andrew Salter, Helen Wiseman, Gregory Tucker, editors, <cite>Phytonutrients</cite>, Chichester, West Sussex: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiley-Blackwell" class="extiw" title="w:Wiley-Blackwell">Wiley-Blackwell</a>, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4051-3151-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4051-3151-3">→ISBN</a></small>, figure 3.2 caption, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=5QOONd19mhMC&pg=PA94">page <span class="None" lang="und">94</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Data were collected from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Nutrition Coordination Center (NCC) Carotenoid Database (Holden et al., 1999) and correspond to raw foods unless indicated with an <b>asterisc</b> (cooked) or two <b>asteriscs</b> (canned).</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul> <ol><li>Something resembling or shaped like an asterisk symbol. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2016</b></span>, Courtney Sanchez, “Retro Stove”, in <cite>DIY Box Creations: Fun and Creative Projects to Make out of Really Big Boxes!</cite>, Lake Forest, Calif.: Walter Foster Jr., <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quarto_Group" class="extiw" title="w:The Quarto Group">Quarto Publishing Group</a>, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-63322-139-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-63322-139-0">→ISBN</a></small>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=0BPADAAAQBAJ&pg=PA48">page <span class="None" lang="und">48</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Using a crafting knife, cut a small <b>asterisk</b> shape in the center of each black circle. Gently pierce each <b>asterisk</b> with a wooden skewer to make a hole. Once done, simply insert your stove knobs, and you're almost ready!</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li class="mw-empty-elt"></li><li class="senseid" id="English:_marginal" data-lang="en" data-id="marginal"><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#figurative" title="Appendix:Glossary">figuratively</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> Something which is of <a href="/wiki/little#Adjective" title="little">little</a> <a href="/wiki/importance" title="importance">importance</a> or which is <a href="/wiki/marginal#Adjective" title="marginal">marginal</a>; a <a href="/wiki/footnote#Noun" title="footnote">footnote</a>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2016</b></span>, Charles <span style="font-style: normal;">[</span>Wesley<span style="font-style: normal;">]</span> Marshall, “More SkyMiles, Less Family”, in <cite>The Good Dad Guide</cite>, Eugene, Or.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_House" class="extiw" title="w:Harvest House">Harvest House Publishers</a>, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7369-6528-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7369-6528-6">→ISBN</a></small>, part 6 (Prevent), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=SJ8oDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA142">page <span class="None" lang="und">142</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">I don't want to be an <b>asterisk</b> in my kids' lives. I don't want to be just some guy who sporadically appears and then disappears again.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><b>2021</b> September 12, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Anthony" class="extiw" title="w:Andrew Anthony">Andrew Anthony</a>, “‘We showed it was possible to create a movement from almost nothing’: Occupy Wall Street 10 years on”, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Viner" class="extiw" title="w:Katharine Viner">Katharine Viner</a>, editor, <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian" class="extiw" title="w:The Guardian">The Guardian</a></cite>‎<sup><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230120030016/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/12/occupy-wall-street-10-years-on">[3]</a></sup>, London: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian_Media_Group" class="extiw" title="w:Guardian Media Group">Guardian News & Media</a>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0261-3077">→ISSN</a></small>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/229952407">→OCLC</a></small>, archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/12/occupy-wall-street-10-years-on">the original</a> on <span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2023-01-20">2023-01-20</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">The opposing view sees it as an abject failure and historically irrelevant. This verdict was neatly summed up by the <i>New York Times</i> financial columnist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Ross_Sorkin" class="extiw" title="w:Andrew Ross Sorkin">Andrew Ross Sorkin</a> when he predicted, a year on from the event: "It will be an <b>asterisk</b> in the history books, if it gets a mention at all."</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li class="mw-empty-elt"></li><li class="senseid" id="English:_sports" data-lang="en" data-id="sports"><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English" class="extiw" title="w:American English">US</a><span class="ib-comma label-comma">,</span> <a href="/wiki/sports" title="sports">sports</a><span class="ib-comma label-comma">,</span> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#figurative" title="Appendix:Glossary">figuratively</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> A <a href="/wiki/blemish#Noun" title="blemish">blemish</a> in an otherwise <a href="/wiki/outstanding" title="outstanding">outstanding</a> <a href="/wiki/achievement" title="achievement">achievement</a>. <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example"><i class="Latn mention e-example" lang="en">They came into the tournament highly ranked, but with a little bit of an <b>asterisk</b> as their last two wins had been unconvincing.</i></div></dd></dl></li></ol></li> <li class="mw-empty-elt"></li><li class="senseid" id="English:_Christianity" data-lang="en" data-id="Christianity"><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodoxy" title="Eastern Orthodoxy">Eastern Orthodoxy</a><span class="ib-comma label-comma">,</span> <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholicism" title="Roman Catholicism">Roman Catholicism</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> An <a href="/wiki/instrument" title="instrument">instrument</a> with <a href="/wiki/radiate" title="radiate">radiating</a> <a href="/wiki/arm#Noun" title="arm">arms</a> resembling a star which is <a href="/wiki/place#Verb" title="place">placed</a> over the <a href="/wiki/diskos" title="diskos">diskos</a> (or <a href="/wiki/paten" title="paten">paten</a>) used during the <a href="/wiki/Eucharist" title="Eucharist">Eucharist</a> to <a href="/wiki/prevent" title="prevent">prevent</a> the <a href="/wiki/veil#Noun" title="veil">veil</a> <a href="/wiki/cover#Verb" title="cover">covering</a> the <a href="/wiki/chalice" title="chalice">chalice</a> and diskos from <a href="/wiki/touch#Verb" title="touch">touching</a> the <a href="/wiki/host#Noun" title="host">host</a> on the diskos. <dl><dd><span class="nyms synonym"><span class="defdate">Synonym:</span> <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/star-cover#English" title="star-cover">star-cover</a></span></span></dd></dl> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1866</b></span>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chrysostom" class="extiw" title="w:John Chrysostom">John Chrysostom</a>, “Liturgy of the Catechumens”, in <span style="font-style: normal;">[</span>anonymous<span style="font-style: normal;">]</span>, transl., <cite>Service of the Divine and Sacred Liturgy of Our Holy Father John Chrysostom.<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="Translated from the Greek according to the Euchologion, and Compared with the Slavonic.">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span></cite>, London: Joseph Masters,<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="Aldersgate Street, and New Bond Street.">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/1184623914">→OCLC</a></small>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=gGaY2MasNR4C&pg=PA70">pages <span class="None" lang="und">69–70</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Then he [the deacon] reverently covereth the holy Cup with the veil. Likewise he placeth the <b>Asterisk</b> upon the holy Diskos, and the veil over it, and saith the following prayer with the Priest, silently, <span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b">[</span>…<span class="q-hellip-b">]</span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span></span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1962</b></span>, Marvin C. Ross, “Copper”, in <cite>Catalogue of the Byzantine and Early Mediaeval Antiquities in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection</cite>, volume 1 (Metalwork, Ceramics, Glass, Glyptics, Painting), Washington, D.C.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbarton_Oaks" class="extiw" title="w:Dumbarton Oaks">Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection</a>, Trustees for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University" class="extiw" title="w:Harvard University">Harvard University</a>, published <span class="None" lang="und">1970</span>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/928049648">→OCLC</a></small>, paragraph 89, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YfEiDrAcAzoC&pg=PA73">page <span class="None" lang="und">73</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">The <b>asterisk</b> is one of the sacred objects used in the Byzantine rite. It is placed on the paten to protect the Eucharistic bread from contact with the special veil that covers it. The name derives from the shape of the object and symbolically recalls the Biblical words: "And the star came and stood above where the child was" <span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b">[</span>…<span class="q-hellip-b">]</span><span class="q-hellip-b"> </span> [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Matthew" class="extiw" title="w:Gospel of Matthew">Matthew</a> 2:9].</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2013</b></span>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_D._Spinks" class="extiw" title="w:Bryan D. Spinks">Bryan D[ouglas] Spinks</a>, quoting <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symeon_of_Thessalonica" class="extiw" title="w:Symeon of Thessalonica">Symeon of Thessalonica</a> (in translation), “The Eucharist and Anaphoras of the Byzantine Synthesis”, in <cite>Do This in Remembrance of Me: The Eucharist from the Early Church to the Present Day</cite> (SCM Studies in Worship and Liturgy), London: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCM_Press" class="extiw" title="w:SCM Press">SCM Press</a>, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-334-04376-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-334-04376-8">→ISBN</a></small>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=iGWmDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA126">page <span class="None" lang="und">126</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">The diskos, then, typifies the heavens, and for that reason, it is round, and holds the Master of heaven. What is called the ‘<b>asterisk</b>’ represents the stars, especially the one at the birth of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus" class="extiw" title="w:Jesus">Christ</a>, just as the veils represent the firmament, the swaddling clothes, the shroud, and the burial cloths.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Alternative_forms">Alternative forms</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=asterisk&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Alternative forms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/asterisc#English" title="asterisc">asterisc</a></span> <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">chiefly archaic</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span></li> <li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/asterix#English" title="asterix">asterix</a></span> <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">eye dialect</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Derived_terms">Derived terms</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=asterisk&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Derived terms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="term-list columns-bg"><ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/asteriskless#English" title="asteriskless">asteriskless</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/asterisklike#English" title="asterisklike">asterisklike</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/gender_asterisk#English" title="gender asterisk">gender asterisk</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/magic_asterisk#English" title="magic asterisk">magic asterisk</a></span></li></ul></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Related_terms">Related terms</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=asterisk&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Related terms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/aster#English" title="aster">aster</a></span></li> <li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/asterism#English" title="asterism">asterism</a></span></li> <li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/asteroid#English" title="asteroid">asteroid</a></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Translations">Translations</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=asterisk&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Translations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-small_star;_something_resembling_or_shaped_like_a_star"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">small star; something resembling or shaped like a star</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="small star; something resembling or shaped like a star"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r81584270">.mw-parser-output .translations{width:100%}.mw-parser-output .translations-cell{background-color:var(--wikt-palette-lightyellow,#FFFFe0);vertical-align:top;text-align:left}</style> <ul><li>Finnish: <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/wiki/t%C3%A4hti#Finnish" title="tähti">tähti</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/t%C3%A4hti" class="extiw" title="fi:tähti">(fi)</a></span></li> <li>Macedonian: <span class="Cyrl" lang="mk"><a href="/wiki/%D1%95%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%B0#Macedonian" title="ѕвездичка">ѕве́здичка</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="mk-Latn" class="tr Latn">dzvézdička</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Polish: <span class="Latn" lang="pl"><a href="/wiki/gwiazdka#Polish" title="gwiazdka">gwiazdka</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/gwiazdka" class="extiw" title="pl:gwiazdka">(pl)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span></li> <li>Russian: <span class="Cyrl" lang="ru"><a href="/wiki/%D0%B7%D0%B2%D1%91%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%B0#Russian" title="звёздочка">звёздочка</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B7%D0%B2%D1%91%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%B0" class="extiw" title="ru:звёздочка">(ru)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ru-Latn" class="tr Latn">zvjózdočka</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-star-shaped_symbol_*;_something_resembling_or_shaped_like_an_asterisk_symbol"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">star-shaped symbol *; something resembling or shaped like an asterisk symbol</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="star-shaped symbol *; something resembling or shaped like an asterisk symbol"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81584270"> <ul><li>Afrikaans: <span class="Latn" lang="af"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Afrikaans">asterisk</a></span></li> <li>Albanian: <span class="Latn" lang="sq"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Albanian">asterisk</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></li> <li>Arabic: <span class="Arab" lang="ar"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%D8%A5%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A9&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="إجامة (page does not exist)">إِجَّامَة</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ar-Latn" class="tr Latn">ʔijjāma</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="Arab" lang="ar"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A9&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="نجيمة (page does not exist)">نُجَيْمَة</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span></li> <li>Armenian: <span class="Armn" lang="hy"><a href="/wiki/%D5%A1%D5%BD%D5%BF%D5%B2%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%AB%D5%B7#Armenian" title="աստղանիշ">աստղանիշ</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://hy.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D5%A1%D5%BD%D5%BF%D5%B2%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%AB%D5%B7" class="extiw" title="hy:աստղանիշ">(hy)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="hy-Latn" class="tr Latn">astġaniš</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Asturian: <span class="Latn" lang="ast"><a href="/wiki/asteriscu#Asturian" title="asteriscu">asteriscu</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></li> <li>Azerbaijani: <span class="Latn" lang="az"><a href="/wiki/ulduz#Azerbaijani" title="ulduz">ulduz</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://az.wiktionary.org/wiki/ulduz" class="extiw" title="az:ulduz">(az)</a></span></li> <li>Basque: <span class="Latn" lang="eu"><a href="/w/index.php?title=istartxo&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="istartxo (page does not exist)">istartxo</a></span></li> <li>Belarusian: <span class="Cyrl" lang="be"><a href="/wiki/%D0%B7%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%B0#Belarusian" title="зорачка">зо́рачка</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="be-Latn" class="tr Latn">zóračka</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="Cyrl" lang="be"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8D%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%81%D0%BA&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="астэрыск (page does not exist)">астэры́ск</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="be-Latn" class="tr Latn">asterýsk</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Bulgarian: <span class="Cyrl" lang="bg"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%D0%B7%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%B0&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="звездичка (page does not exist)">звезди́чка</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="bg-Latn" class="tr Latn">zvezdíčka</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Burmese: <span class="Mymr" lang="my"><a href="/wiki/%E1%80%81%E1%80%9B%E1%80%B1%E1%80%95%E1%80%BD%E1%80%84%E1%80%B7%E1%80%BA#Burmese" title="ခရေပွင့်">ခရေပွင့်</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://my.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%80%81%E1%80%9B%E1%80%B1%E1%80%95%E1%80%BD%E1%80%84%E1%80%B7%E1%80%BA" class="extiw" title="my:ခရေပွင့်">(my)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="my-Latn" class="tr Latn">hka.re-pwang.</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Catalan: <span class="Latn" lang="ca"><a href="/wiki/asterisc#Catalan" title="asterisc">asterisc</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ca.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisc" class="extiw" title="ca:asterisc">(ca)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></li> <li>Chinese: <dl><dd>Cantonese: <span class="Hant" lang="yue"><a href="/wiki/%E6%98%9F%E8%99%9F#Cantonese" title="星號">星號</a></span><span class="Zsym mention" style="font-size:100%;"> / </span><span class="Hans" lang="yue"><a href="/wiki/%E6%98%9F%E5%8F%B7#Cantonese" title="星号">星号</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="yue-Latn" class="tr Latn">sing<sup>1</sup> hou<sup>6</sup></span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></dd> <dd>Mandarin: <span class="Hant" lang="cmn"><a href="/wiki/%E6%98%9F%E8%99%9F#Mandarin" title="星號">星號</a></span><span class="Zsym mention" style="font-size:100%;"> / </span><span class="Hans" lang="cmn"><a href="/wiki/%E6%98%9F%E5%8F%B7#Mandarin" title="星号">星号</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://zh.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%98%9F%E8%99%9F" class="extiw" title="zh:星號">(zh)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="cmn-Latn" class="tr Latn">xīnghào</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></dd></dl></li> <li>Czech: <span class="Latn" lang="cs"><a href="/wiki/hv%C4%9Bzdi%C4%8Dka#Czech" title="hvězdička">hvězdička</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://cs.wiktionary.org/wiki/hv%C4%9Bzdi%C4%8Dka" class="extiw" title="cs:hvězdička">(cs)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span></li> <li>Danish: <span class="Latn" lang="da"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Danish">asterisk</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="common gender">c</abbr></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="da"><a href="/wiki/stjerne#Danish" title="stjerne">stjerne</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://da.wiktionary.org/wiki/stjerne" class="extiw" title="da:stjerne">(da)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="common gender">c</abbr></span></li> <li>Dutch: <span class="Latn" lang="nl"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Dutch">asterisk</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisk" class="extiw" title="nl:asterisk">(nl)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="nl"><a href="/wiki/sterretje#Dutch" title="sterretje">sterretje</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/sterretje" class="extiw" title="nl:sterretje">(nl)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="neuter gender">n</abbr></span></li> <li>Esperanto: <span class="Latn" lang="eo"><a href="/wiki/steleto#Esperanto" title="steleto">steleto</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="eo"><a href="/wiki/asterisko#Esperanto" title="asterisko">asterisko</a></span></li> <li>Estonian: <span class="Latn" lang="et"><a href="/w/index.php?title=t%C3%A4rnike&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="tärnike (page does not exist)">tärnike</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="et"><a href="/w/index.php?title=t%C3%A4rn&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="tärn (page does not exist)">tärn</a></span></li> <li>Faroese: <span class="Latn" lang="fo"><a href="/w/index.php?title=asteriksur&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="asteriksur (page does not exist)">asteriksur</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></li> <li>Finnish: <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/wiki/asteriski#Finnish" title="asteriski">asteriski</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/asteriski" class="extiw" title="fi:asteriski">(fi)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/wiki/t%C3%A4hti#Finnish" title="tähti">tähti</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/t%C3%A4hti" class="extiw" title="fi:tähti">(fi)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/wiki/t%C3%A4hti#Finnish" title="tähti">tähti</a>-<a href="/wiki/merkki#Finnish" title="merkki">merkki</a></span></li> <li>French: <span class="Latn" lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/ast%C3%A9risque#French" title="astérisque">astérisque</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/ast%C3%A9risque" class="extiw" title="fr:astérisque">(fr)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></li> <li>Galician: <span class="Latn" lang="gl"><a href="/wiki/asterisco#Galician" title="asterisco">asterisco</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></li> <li>Georgian: <span class="Geor" lang="ka"><a href="/wiki/%E1%83%95%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A1%E1%83%99%E1%83%95%E1%83%9A%E1%83%90%E1%83%95%E1%83%98#Georgian" title="ვარსკვლავი">ვარსკვლავი</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ka.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%83%95%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A1%E1%83%99%E1%83%95%E1%83%9A%E1%83%90%E1%83%95%E1%83%98" class="extiw" title="ka:ვარსკვლავი">(ka)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ka-Latn" class="tr Latn">varsḳvlavi</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>German: <span class="Latn" lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Sternchen#German" title="Sternchen">Sternchen</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sternchen" class="extiw" title="de:Sternchen">(de)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="neuter gender">n</abbr></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="de"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Asterisk&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Asterisk (page does not exist)">Asterisk</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Asterisk" class="extiw" title="de:Asterisk">(de)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="de"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Asteriskus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Asteriskus (page does not exist)">Asteriskus</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Asteriskus" class="extiw" title="de:Asteriskus">(de)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></li> <li>Greek: <span class="Grek" lang="el"><a href="/wiki/%CE%B1%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%AF%CF%83%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%82#Greek" title="αστερίσκος">αστερίσκος</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://el.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B1%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%AF%CF%83%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%82" class="extiw" title="el:αστερίσκος">(el)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="el-Latn" class="tr Latn">asterískos</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span> <dl><dd>Ancient: <span class="Polyt" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%E1%BC%80%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%AF%CF%83%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%82#Ancient_Greek" title="ἀστερίσκος">ἀστερίσκος</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="grc-Latn" class="tr Latn">asterískos</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></dd></dl></li> <li>Hebrew: <span class="Hebr" lang="he"><a href="/wiki/%D7%9B%D7%95%D7%9B%D7%91%D7%99%D7%AA#Hebrew" title="כוכבית">כּוֹכָבִית</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="he-Latn" class="tr Latn">kokhavít</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Hindi: <span class="Deva" lang="hi"><a href="/wiki/%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%95#Hindi" title="तारक">तारक</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://hi.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%95" class="extiw" title="hi:तारक">(hi)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="hi-Latn" class="tr Latn">tārak</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="Deva" lang="hi"><a href="/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE#Hindi" title="सितारा">सितारा</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://hi.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE" class="extiw" title="hi:सितारा">(hi)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="hi-Latn" class="tr Latn">sitārā</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Hungarian: <span class="Latn" lang="hu"><a href="/wiki/csillag#Hungarian" title="csillag">csillag</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://hu.wiktionary.org/wiki/csillag" class="extiw" title="hu:csillag">(hu)</a></span></li> <li>Icelandic: <span class="Latn" lang="is"><a href="/wiki/stj%C3%B6rnumerki#Icelandic" title="stjörnumerki">stjörnumerki</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://is.wiktionary.org/wiki/stj%C3%B6rnumerki" class="extiw" title="is:stjörnumerki">(is)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="neuter gender">n</abbr></span></li> <li>Ido: <span class="Latn" lang="io"><a href="/wiki/steleto#Ido" title="steleto">steleto</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://io.wiktionary.org/wiki/steleto" class="extiw" title="io:steleto">(io)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="io"><a href="/wiki/asterisko#Ido" title="asterisko">asterisko</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://io.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisko" class="extiw" title="io:asterisko">(io)</a></span></li> <li>Indonesian: <span class="Latn" lang="id"><a href="/w/index.php?title=tanda_bintang&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="tanda bintang (page does not exist)">tanda bintang</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="id"><a href="/wiki/bintang#Indonesian" title="bintang">bintang</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://id.wiktionary.org/wiki/bintang" class="extiw" title="id:bintang">(id)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="id"><a href="/wiki/asteris#Indonesian" title="asteris">asteris</a></span></li> <li>Interlingua: <span class="Latn" lang="ia"><a href="/wiki/asterisco#Interlingua" title="asterisco">asterisco</a></span></li> <li>Irish: <span class="Latn" lang="ga"><a href="/wiki/r%C3%A9alta#Irish" title="réalta">réalta</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ga.wiktionary.org/wiki/r%C3%A9alta" class="extiw" title="ga:réalta">(ga)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span></li> <li>Italian: <span class="Latn" lang="it"><a href="/wiki/asterisco#Italian" title="asterisco">asterisco</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisco" class="extiw" title="it:asterisco">(it)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></li> <li>Japanese: <span class="Jpan" lang="ja"><a href="/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AF#Japanese" title="アスタリスク">アスタリスク</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AF" class="extiw" title="ja:アスタリスク">(ja)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="tr">asutarisuku</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="Jpan" lang="ja"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%E6%98%9F%E5%8D%B0&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="星印 (page does not exist)">星印</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%98%9F%E5%8D%B0" class="extiw" title="ja:星印">(ja)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="tr">ほしじるし, hoshi jirushi</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="Jpan" lang="ja"><a href="/wiki/%E6%98%9F%E5%8F%B7#Japanese" title="星号">星号</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="tr">せいごう, seigō</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="Jpan" lang="ja"><a href="/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC#Japanese" title="スター">スター</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC" class="extiw" title="ja:スター">(ja)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="tr">sutā</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="Jpan" lang="ja"><a href="/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AF#Japanese" title="アステリスク">アステリスク</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AF" class="extiw" title="ja:アステリスク">(ja)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="tr">asuterisuku</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Kalmyk: <span class="Cyrl" lang="xal"><a href="/wiki/%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BA#Kalmyk" title="астериск">астериск</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="xal-Latn" class="tr Latn">asterisk</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Kazakh: <span class="Cyrl" lang="kk"><a href="/wiki/%D0%B6%D2%B1%D0%BB%D0%B4%D1%8B%D0%B7%D1%88%D0%B0#Kazakh" title="жұлдызша">жұлдызша</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="kk-Latn" class="tr Latn">jūldyzşa</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Korean: <span class="Kore" lang="ko"><a href="/wiki/%EB%B3%84%ED%91%9C#Korean" title="별표">별표</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ko.wiktionary.org/wiki/%EB%B3%84%ED%91%9C" class="extiw" title="ko:별표">(ko)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ko-Latn" class="tr Latn">byeolpyo</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="Kore" lang="ko"><a href="/wiki/%EC%95%A0%EC%8A%A4%ED%84%B0%EB%A6%AC%EC%8A%A4%ED%81%AC#Korean" title="애스터리스크">애스터리스크</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ko-Latn" class="tr Latn">aeseuteoriseukeu</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Kyrgyz: <span class="Cyrl" lang="ky"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%D0%B6%D1%8B%D0%BB%D0%B4%D1%8B%D0%B7%D1%87%D0%B0&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="жылдызча (page does not exist)">жылдызча</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ky.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B6%D1%8B%D0%BB%D0%B4%D1%8B%D0%B7%D1%87%D0%B0" class="extiw" title="ky:жылдызча">(ky)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ky-Latn" class="tr Latn">jıldızca</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Latin: <span class="Latn" lang="la"><a href="/wiki/asteriscus#Latin" title="asteriscus">asterīscus</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></li> <li>Latvian: <span class="Latn" lang="lv"><a href="/w/index.php?title=zvaigzn%C4%ABte&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="zvaigznīte (page does not exist)">zvaigznīte</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span></li> <li>Lithuanian: <span class="Latn" lang="lt"><a href="/w/index.php?title=asteriskas&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="asteriskas (page does not exist)">asteriskas</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="lt"><a href="/wiki/%C5%BEvaig%C5%BEdut%C4%97#Lithuanian" title="žvaigždutė">žvaigždutė</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span></li> <li>Macedonian: <span class="Cyrl" lang="mk"><a href="/wiki/%D1%95%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%B0#Macedonian" title="ѕвездичка">ѕве́здичка</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="mk-Latn" class="tr Latn">dzvézdička</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Malay: <span class="Latn" lang="ms"><a href="/w/index.php?title=tanda_bintang&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="tanda bintang (page does not exist)">tanda bintang</a></span></li> <li>Maltese: <span class="Latn" lang="mt"><a href="/w/index.php?title=asteriks&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="asteriks (page does not exist)">asteriks</a></span></li> <li>Norman: <span class="Latn" lang="nrf"><a href="/wiki/ast%C3%A9risque#Norman" title="astérisque">astérisque</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="nrf"><a href="/wiki/%C3%AAtaile#Norman" title="êtaile">êtaile</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span></li> <li>Norwegian: <dl><dd>Bokmål: <span class="Latn" lang="nb"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Norwegian_Bokmål">asterisk</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://no.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisk" class="extiw" title="no:asterisk">(no)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="nb"><a href="/wiki/stjerne#Norwegian_Bokmål" title="stjerne">stjerne</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://no.wiktionary.org/wiki/stjerne" class="extiw" title="no:stjerne">(no)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr> or <abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span></dd> <dd>Nynorsk: <span class="Latn" lang="nn"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Norwegian_Nynorsk">asterisk</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="nn"><a href="/wiki/stjerne#Norwegian_Nynorsk" title="stjerne">stjerne</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://nn.wiktionary.org/wiki/stjerne" class="extiw" title="nn:stjerne">(nn)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span></dd></dl></li> <li>Ottoman Turkish: <span class="Arab ota-Arab" lang="ota"><a href="/wiki/%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%B2#Ottoman_Turkish" title="یلدز">یلدز</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ota-Latn" class="tr Latn">yıldız</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Persian: <dl><dd>Iranian Persian: <span class="Arab fa-Arab" lang="fa"><a href="/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%87#Persian" title="ستاره">سِتارِه</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="fa-Latn" class="tr Latn">setâre</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></dd></dl></li> <li>Polish: <span class="Latn" lang="pl"><a href="/wiki/gwiazdka#Polish" title="gwiazdka">gwiazdka</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/gwiazdka" class="extiw" title="pl:gwiazdka">(pl)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="pl"><a href="/wiki/asterysk#Polish" title="asterysk">asterysk</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterysk" class="extiw" title="pl:asterysk">(pl)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></li> <li>Portuguese: <span class="Latn" lang="pt"><a href="/wiki/asterisco#Portuguese" title="asterisco">asterisco</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://pt.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisco" class="extiw" title="pt:asterisco">(pt)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></li> <li>Punjabi: <dl><dd>Gurmukhi: <span class="Guru" lang="pa"><a href="/wiki/%E0%A8%A4%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%BE#Punjabi" title="ਤਾਰਾ">ਤਾਰਾ</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://pa.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A8%A4%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%BE" class="extiw" title="pa:ਤਾਰਾ">(pa)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="pa-Latn" class="tr Latn">tārā</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></dd></dl></li> <li>Romanian: <span class="Latn" lang="ro"><a href="/wiki/asterisc#Romanian" title="asterisc">asterisc</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ro.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisc" class="extiw" title="ro:asterisc">(ro)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="neuter gender">n</abbr></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="ro"><a href="/wiki/stelu%C8%9B%C4%83#Romanian" title="steluță">steluță</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ro.wiktionary.org/wiki/stelu%C8%9B%C4%83" class="extiw" title="ro:steluță">(ro)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span></li> <li>Russian: <span class="Cyrl" lang="ru"><a href="/wiki/%D0%B7%D0%B2%D1%91%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%B0#Russian" title="звёздочка">звёздочка</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B7%D0%B2%D1%91%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%B0" class="extiw" title="ru:звёздочка">(ru)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ru-Latn" class="tr Latn">zvjózdočka</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="Cyrl" lang="ru"><a href="/wiki/%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BA#Russian" title="астериск">астери́ск</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BA" class="extiw" title="ru:астериск">(ru)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ru-Latn" class="tr Latn">asterísk</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Scottish Gaelic: <span class="Latn" lang="gd"><a href="/wiki/reul#Scottish_Gaelic" title="reul">reul</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span></li> <li>Serbo-Croatian: <dl><dd>Cyrillic: <span class="Cyrl" lang="sh"><a href="/wiki/%D0%B7%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0#Serbo-Croatian" title="звездица">звѐздица</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span>, <span class="Cyrl" lang="sh"><a href="/wiki/%D0%B7%D0%B2%D1%98%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0#Serbo-Croatian" title="звјездица">звјѐздица</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span>, <span class="Cyrl" lang="sh"><a href="/wiki/%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BA#Serbo-Croatian" title="астериск">а̏стериск</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></dd> <dd>Roman: <span class="Latn" lang="sh"><a href="/wiki/zvezdica#Serbo-Croatian" title="zvezdica">zvèzdica</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://sh.wiktionary.org/wiki/zvezdica" class="extiw" title="sh:zvezdica">(sh)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="sh"><a href="/wiki/zvjezdica#Serbo-Croatian" title="zvjezdica">zvjèzdica</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://sh.wiktionary.org/wiki/zvjezdica" class="extiw" title="sh:zvjezdica">(sh)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="sh"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Serbo-Croatian">ȁsterisk</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://sh.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisk" class="extiw" title="sh:asterisk">(sh)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></dd></dl></li> <li>Slovak: <span class="Latn" lang="sk"><a href="/w/index.php?title=hviezdi%C4%8Dka&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="hviezdička (page does not exist)">hviezdička</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span></li> <li>Slovene: <span class="Latn" lang="sl"><a href="/wiki/zvezdica#Slovene" title="zvezdica">zvezdica</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span></li> <li>Spanish: <span class="Latn" lang="es"><a href="/wiki/asterisco#Spanish" title="asterisco">asterisco</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisco" class="extiw" title="es:asterisco">(es)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></li> <li>Swedish: <span class="Latn" lang="sv"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Swedish">asterisk</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://sv.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisk" class="extiw" title="sv:asterisk">(sv)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="common gender">c</abbr></span></li> <li>Tagalog: <span class="Latn" lang="tl"><a href="/w/index.php?title=talantanda&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="talantanda (page does not exist)">talantanda</a></span></li> <li>Tajik: <span class="Cyrl" lang="tg"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B0&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="ситорача (page does not exist)">ситорача</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="tg-Latn" class="tr Latn">sitorača</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="Cyrl" lang="tg"><a href="/wiki/%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0#Tajik" title="ситора">ситора</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://tg.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0" class="extiw" title="tg:ситора">(tg)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="tg-Latn" class="tr Latn">sitora</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Tamil: <span class="Taml" lang="ta"><a href="/wiki/%E0%AE%89%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%B1%E0%AE%BF#Tamil" title="உடுக்குறி">உடுக்குறி</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ta.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%AE%89%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%B1%E0%AE%BF" class="extiw" title="ta:உடுக்குறி">(ta)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ta-Latn" class="tr Latn">uṭukkuṟi</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Thai: <span class="Thai" lang="th"><a href="/wiki/%E0%B8%94%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%99#Thai" title="ดอกจัน">ดอกจัน</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://th.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%B8%94%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%99" class="extiw" title="th:ดอกจัน">(th)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="th-Latn" class="tr Latn">dɔ̀ɔk-jan</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Turkish: <span class="Latn" lang="tr"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Turkish">asterisk</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://tr.wiktionary.org/wiki/asterisk" class="extiw" title="tr:asterisk">(tr)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="tr"><a href="/w/index.php?title=y%C4%B1ld%C4%B1z_imi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="yıldız imi (page does not exist)">yıldız imi</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="tr"><a href="/w/index.php?title=y%C4%B1ld%C4%B1z_i%C5%9Fareti&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="yıldız işareti (page does not exist)">yıldız işareti</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="tr"><a href="/wiki/y%C4%B1ld%C4%B1z#Turkish" title="yıldız">yıldız</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://tr.wiktionary.org/wiki/y%C4%B1ld%C4%B1z" class="extiw" title="tr:yıldız">(tr)</a></span></li> <li>Ukrainian: <span class="Cyrl" lang="uk"><a href="/wiki/%D0%B7%D1%96%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%B0#Ukrainian" title="зірочка">зі́рочка</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://uk.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B7%D1%96%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%B0" class="extiw" title="uk:зірочка">(uk)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="uk-Latn" class="tr Latn">zíročka</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="Cyrl" lang="uk"><a href="/wiki/%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BA#Ukrainian" title="астериск">астери́ск</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="uk-Latn" class="tr Latn">asterýsk</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Urdu: <span class="Arab ur-Arab" lang="ur"><a href="/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%81#Urdu" title="ستارہ">سِتارَہ</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ur.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%81" class="extiw" title="ur:ستارہ">(ur)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ur-Latn" class="tr Latn">sitāra</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Uyghur: <span class="Arab ug-Arab" lang="ug"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%D9%8A%DB%87%D9%84%D8%AA%DB%87%D8%B2%DA%86%DB%95&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="يۇلتۇزچە (page does not exist)">يۇلتۇزچە</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ug-Latn" class="tr Latn">yultuzche</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Uzbek: <span class="Latn" lang="uz"><a href="/w/index.php?title=yulduzcha&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="yulduzcha (page does not exist)">yulduzcha</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://uz.wiktionary.org/wiki/yulduzcha" class="extiw" title="uz:yulduzcha">(uz)</a></span></li> <li>Vietnamese: <span class="Latn" lang="vi"><a href="/wiki/d%E1%BA%A5u_sao#Vietnamese" title="dấu sao">dấu sao</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="vi"><a href="/w/index.php?title=d%E1%BA%A5u_hoa_th%E1%BB%8B&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="dấu hoa thị (page does not exist)">dấu hoa thị</a></span></li> <li>Volapük: <span class="Latn" lang="vo"><a href="/wiki/stel%C3%BCl#Volapük" title="stelül">stelül</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://vo.wiktionary.org/wiki/stel%C3%BCl" class="extiw" title="vo:stelül">(vo)</a></span></li> <li>Welsh: <span class="Latn" lang="cy"><a href="/wiki/seren#Welsh" title="seren">seren</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://cy.wiktionary.org/wiki/seren" class="extiw" title="cy:seren">(cy)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="cy"><a href="/w/index.php?title=serennig&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="serennig (page does not exist)">serennig</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span></li> <li>Yiddish: <span class="Hebr" lang="yi"><a href="/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%98%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%9C#Yiddish" title="שטערנדל">שטערנדל</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="neuter gender">n</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="yi-Latn" class="tr Latn">shterndl</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="pseudo NavFrame" id="Translations-something_which_is_of_little_importance_or_which_is_marginal"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">something which is of little importance or which is marginal <span style="font-weight:normal">— <i>see </i></span><a href="/wiki/footnote#Translations" title="footnote">footnote</a></div></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-blemish_in_an_otherwise_outstanding_achievement"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">blemish in an otherwise outstanding achievement</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="blemish in an otherwise outstanding achievement"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81584270"> <ul><li>Finnish: <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/wiki/tahra#Finnish" title="tahra">tahra</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/tahra" class="extiw" title="fi:tahra">(fi)</a></span></li> <li>Macedonian: <span class="trreq" data-lang="mk"><i>please add this translation if you can</i></span></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-instrument_with_radiating_arms_placed_over_the_diskos_used_during_the_Eucharist"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">instrument with radiating arms placed over the diskos used during the Eucharist</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="instrument with radiating arms placed over the diskos used during the Eucharist"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81584270"> <ul><li>Finnish: <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/wiki/t%C3%A4hti#Finnish" title="tähti">tähti</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/t%C3%A4hti" class="extiw" title="fi:tähti">(fi)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/wiki/asteriski#Finnish" title="asteriski">asteriski</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/asteriski" class="extiw" title="fi:asteriski">(fi)</a></span></li> <li>Macedonian: <span class="trreq" data-lang="mk"><i>please add this translation if you can</i></span></li> <li>Russian: <span class="Cyrl" lang="ru"><a href="/wiki/%D0%B7%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0#Russian" title="звездица">звезди́ца</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B7%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0" class="extiw" title="ru:звездица">(ru)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ru-Latn" class="tr Latn">zvezdíca</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="See_also">See also</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=asterisk&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>Typography</b> </p> <div class="columns-bg ul-column-count" data-column-count="3"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/ampersand" title="ampersand">ampersand</a> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%26#Translingual" title="&">&</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">asterisk</a> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/*#Translingual" title="*">*</a></span></b> ) and <a href="/wiki/asterism" title="asterism">asterism</a> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%81%82#Translingual" title="⁂">⁂</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/at_sign" title="at sign">at sign</a> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/@#Translingual" title="@">@</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/backslash" title="backslash">backslash</a> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%5C#Translingual" title="\">\</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/bullet" title="bullet">bullet</a> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%A2#Translingual" title="•">•</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/dagger" title="dagger">dagger</a> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%A0#Translingual" title="†">†</a></span> <span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%A1#Translingual" title="‡">‡</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/degree" title="degree">degree</a> symbol ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%C2%B0#Translingual" title="°">°</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/number_sign" title="number sign">number sign</a> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/Unsupported_titles/%60num%60#Translingual" title="Unsupported titles/`num`">#</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/prime" title="prime">prime</a> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%B2#Translingual" title="′">′</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/tilde" title="tilde">tilde</a> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/~#Translingual" title="~">~</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/underscore" title="underscore">underscore</a> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/Unsupported_titles/%60lowbar%60#Translingual" title="Unsupported titles/`lowbar`">_</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/vertical_bar" title="vertical bar">vertical bar</a>/<a href="/wiki/pipe" title="pipe">pipe</a> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/Unsupported_titles/%60vert%60#Translingual" title="Unsupported titles/`vert`">|</a></span></b> )</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Verb">Verb</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=asterisk&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Verb"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="en">asterisk</strong> (<i>third-person singular simple present</i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-en s-verb-form-form-of" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/asterisks#English" title="asterisks">asterisks</a></b>, <i>present participle</i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-en ing-form-form-of" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/asterisking#English" title="asterisking">asterisking</a></b>, <i>simple past and past participle</i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-en ed-form-form-of" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/asterisked#English" title="asterisked">asterisked</a></b>)</span> </p> <ol><li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#transitive" title="Appendix:Glossary">transitive</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> To <a href="/wiki/mark#Verb" title="mark">mark</a> or <a href="/wiki/replace#Verb" title="replace">replace</a> (<a href="/wiki/text#Noun" title="text">text</a>, etc.) with an <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Noun">asterisk</a> <a href="/wiki/symbol#Noun" title="symbol">symbol</a> (<a href="/wiki/*" title="*">*</a>; <i>noun <a href="#English:_symbol">sense 1.1</a></i>); to <a href="/wiki/star#Verb" title="star">star</a>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1896</b></span> August, The Australasian Insurance, Banking Record, quotees, “The Bank of New Zealand’s Balance Sheet”, in Clement H. Davis, editor, <cite>The Bankers’ Magazine of Australasia. An Illustrated Monthly</cite>, volume X, number 1, Melbourne, Vic.: Bankers’ Instituteo of Australasia, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/220272684">→OCLC</a></small>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=K_B4zKaamIAC&pg=PA43">page <span class="None" lang="und">43</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">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 <b>asterisked</b> in the balance sheet as follows: <span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b">[</span>…<span class="q-hellip-b">]</span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span></span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2003</b></span>, Rebecca Campbell, “Odette in Venice”, in <cite>Slave to Love<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="A Novel">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span></cite>, New York, N.Y.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villard_(imprint)" class="extiw" title="w:Villard (imprint)">Villard Books</a>, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8129-7090-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8129-7090-6">→ISBN</a></small>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/slavetolovenovel00camp/page/95/mode/1up">page <span class="None" lang="und">95</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">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 <b>asterisking</b> the should-dos.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2020</b></span>, Christopher Rollason, “Popular Poe Anthologies in the United Kingdom and France”, in Emron Esplin, Margarida Vale de Gato, editors, <cite>Anthologizing Poe: Editions, Translations, and (Trans)National Canons</cite>, Bethlehem, Pa.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehigh_University_Press" class="extiw" title="w:Lehigh University Press">Lehigh University Press</a>; Lanham, Md.; London: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowman_%26_Littlefield" class="extiw" title="w:Rowman & Littlefield">The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group</a>, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-61146-258-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-61146-258-6">→ISBN</a></small>, part IV (Wor(l)ding Poe Abroad: Anthologizers, Editors, Illustrators, and Translators), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Ac3xDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA289">page <span class="None" lang="und">289</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">[Alain] Jaubert's preface is the longest and most detailed in our corpus; <span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b">[</span>…<span class="q-hellip-b">]</span><span class="q-hellip-b"> </span> It covers both <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe" class="extiw" title="w:Edgar Allan Poe">[Edgar Allan] Poe</a>'s work in general and the specific content of the volume (Jaubert, ingeniously, adopts an ad hoc typographical device, <b>asterisking</b> the references to the tales of his volume).</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Derived_terms_2">Derived terms</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=asterisk&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Derived terms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/asterisked#English" title="asterisked">asterisked</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="ann-pos">adjective</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/unasterisked#English" title="unasterisked">unasterisked</a></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Translations_2">Translations</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=asterisk&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Translations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-to_mark_or_replace_(text,_etc.)_with_an_asterisk_symbol_(*)"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">to mark or replace (text, etc.) with an asterisk symbol (*) <span style="font-weight:normal">— <i>see also </i></span><a href="/wiki/star#Translations" title="star">star</a></div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="to mark or replace (text, etc.) with an asterisk symbol (*)"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81584270"> <ul><li>Finnish: <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/wiki/korvata#Finnish" title="korvata">korvata</a> <a href="/wiki/t%C3%A4htimerkki#Finnish" title="tähtimerkki">tähtimerkillä</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/wiki/korvata#Finnish" title="korvata">korvata</a> <a href="/wiki/t%C3%A4htimerkki#Finnish" title="tähtimerkki">tähtimerkeillä</a></span></li> <li>Macedonian: <span class="trreq" data-lang="mk"><i>please add this translation if you can</i></span></li> <li>Yiddish: <span class="Hebr" lang="yi"><a href="/wiki/%D7%91%D7%90%D6%B7%D7%A9%D7%98%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%9C%D7%A2%D7%9F#Yiddish" title="באַשטערנדלען">באַשטערנדלען</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="yi-Latn" class="tr Latn">bashterndlen</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="References">References</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=asterisk&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1"> ^ </a> <span class="reference-text">“<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary/MED2672">asterisk, <i>n.</i></a>”, in <span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English_Dictionary" class="extiw" title="w:Middle English Dictionary">MED Online</a></cite>, Ann Arbor, Mich.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Michigan" class="extiw" title="w:University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a>, <span class="None" lang="und">2007</span></span></span>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><a href="#cite_ref-2"> ^ </a> <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source">“<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/12121">asterisk, <i>n.</i></a>”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary#Electronic_versions" class="extiw" title="w:Oxford English Dictionary">OED Online</a> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Lock-red.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Paid subscription required"><img alt="Paid subscription required" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Lock-red.svg/8px-Lock-red.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Lock-red.svg/12px-Lock-red.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Lock-red.svg/16px-Lock-red.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="813" /></a></span>⁠</cite>, Oxford: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" class="extiw" title="w:Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>, December 2022</span></span>; <span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source">“<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/https://www.lexico.com/definition/asterisk">asterisk, <i>n.</i></a>”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexico" class="extiw" title="w:Lexico">Lexico</a></cite>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary.com" class="extiw" title="w:Dictionary.com">Dictionary.com</a>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" class="extiw" title="w:Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>, <span class="None" lang="und">2019–2022</span></span></span>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><a href="#cite_ref-3"> ^ </a> <span class="reference-text">See, for example, <span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Barra" class="extiw" title="w:Allen Barra">Allen Barra</a> (2007 May 27) “An asterisk is very real, even when it’s not”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" class="extiw" title="w:The New York Times">The New York Times</a></cite>‎<sup><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081210204859/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/weekinreview/27barra.html">[1]</a></sup>, New York, N.Y.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Company" class="extiw" title="w:The New York Times Company">The New York Times Company</a>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0362-4331">→ISSN</a></small>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/971436363">→OCLC</a></small>, archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/weekinreview/27barra.html">the original</a> on <span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2008-12-10">2008-12-10</span></span></span>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><a href="#cite_ref-4"> ^ </a> <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source">“<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/12122">asterisk, <i>v.</i></a>”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary#Electronic_versions" class="extiw" title="w:Oxford English Dictionary">OED Online</a> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Lock-red.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Paid subscription required"><img alt="Paid subscription required" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Lock-red.svg/8px-Lock-red.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Lock-red.svg/12px-Lock-red.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Lock-red.svg/16px-Lock-red.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="813" /></a></span>⁠</cite>, Oxford: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" class="extiw" title="w:Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>, December 2022</span></span>; <span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source">“<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/https://www.lexico.com/definition/asterisk">asterisk, <i>v.</i></a>”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexico" class="extiw" title="w:Lexico">Lexico</a></cite>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary.com" class="extiw" title="w:Dictionary.com">Dictionary.com</a>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" class="extiw" title="w:Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>, <span class="None" lang="und">2019–2022</span></span></span>.</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=asterisk&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/asterisk" title="w:asterisk"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/15px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/23px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/30px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="103" data-file-height="94" /></a></span> <b class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/asterisk" class="extiw" title="w:asterisk">asterisk</a></b> on Wikipedia.<span class="interProject"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/asterisk" class="extiw" title="w:asterisk">Wikipedia </a></span></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/asterisk_(liturgy)" title="w:asterisk (liturgy)"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/15px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/23px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/30px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="103" data-file-height="94" /></a></span> <b class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/asterisk_(liturgy)" class="extiw" title="w:asterisk (liturgy)">asterisk (liturgy)</a></b> on Wikipedia.<span class="interProject"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/asterisk_(liturgy)" class="extiw" title="w:asterisk (liturgy)">Wikipedia </a></span></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/asterisk_(disambiguation)" title="w:asterisk (disambiguation)"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/15px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/23px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/30px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="103" data-file-height="94" /></a></span> <b class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/asterisk_(disambiguation)" class="extiw" title="w:asterisk (disambiguation)">asterisk (disambiguation)</a></b> on Wikipedia.<span class="interProject"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/asterisk_(disambiguation)" class="extiw" title="w:asterisk (disambiguation)">Wikipedia </a></span></li> <li><span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dwight_Whitney" class="extiw" title="w:William Dwight Whitney">William Dwight Whitney</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Eli_Smith" class="extiw" title="w:Benjamin Eli Smith">Benjamin E[li] Smith</a>, editors (<span class="None" lang="und">1911</span>), “<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://server-66-113-234-189.da.direct/century-dictionary.com/html/wnph-chw.php?query=asterisk&type=dicts">asterisk</a>”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_Dictionary" class="extiw" title="w:Century Dictionary">The Century Dictionary<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="and Cyclopedia: With a New Atlas of the World; a Work of General Reference in All Departments of Knowledge in Twelve Volumes">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span></a></cite>, New York, N.Y.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_Company" class="extiw" title="w:The Century Company">The Century Co.</a>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/867766587">→OCLC</a></small>.</span></span></li> <li><span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source">“<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.websters1913.com/words/Asterisk">asterisk</a>”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webster%27s_Dictionary#Webster's_New_International_Dictionary_1909" class="extiw" title="w:Webster's Dictionary">Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary</a></cite>, Springfield, Mass.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merriam-Webster" class="extiw" title="w:Merriam-Webster">G. & C. Merriam</a>, <span class="None" lang="und">1913</span>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/800618302">→OCLC</a></small>.</span></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Anagrams">Anagrams</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=asterisk&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Anagrams"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/sarkiest#English" title="sarkiest">sarkiest</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/skaiters#English" title="skaiters">skaiters</a></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Danish">Danish</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=asterisk&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Danish"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="interproject-box sister-wikipedia sister-project noprint floatright"><div style="float: left;"><figure class="mw-halign-none" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/44px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="44" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/66px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/88px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="103" data-file-height="94" /></span><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div><div style="margin-left: 60px;">Danish <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> has an article on:<div style="margin-left: 10px;"><b class="Latn" lang="da"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/da:asterisk" class="extiw" title="w:da:asterisk">asterisk</a></b></div></div><span class="interProject"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/da:asterisk" class="extiw" title="w:da:asterisk">Wikipedia <sup>da</sup></a></span></div><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r81571951">.mw-parser-output .interproject-box{font-size:90%;width:250px;padding:4px;text-align:left;background:var(--wikt-palette-paleblue,#f9f9f9);border:var(--border-color-base,#aaa)1px solid}@media screen and (max-width:719px){.mw-parser-output .interproject-box{box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5;width:100%;max-width:100%}}</style> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Noun_2">Noun</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=asterisk&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Noun"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="da">asterisk</strong> <span class="gender"><abbr title="common gender">c</abbr></span> (<i>singular definite</i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-da def|s-form-of" lang="da"><a href="/wiki/asterisken#Danish" title="asterisken">asterisken</a></b>, <i>plural indefinite</i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-da indef|p-form-of" lang="da"><a href="/wiki/asterisker#Danish" title="asterisker">asterisker</a></b>)</span> </p> <ol><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#English">asterisk</a></span></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Inflection">Inflection</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=asterisk&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Inflection"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="inflection-table-wrapper inflection-table-narrow inflection-table-brown inflection-table-collapsible inflection-table-collapsed no-vc" style="width: fit-content" 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class="selflink">asterisk</strong></span> </td> <td><span class="Latn form-of lang-da def|s-form-of" lang="da"><a href="/wiki/asterisken#Danish" title="asterisken">asterisken</a></span> </td> <td><span class="Latn form-of lang-da indef|p-form-of" lang="da"><a href="/wiki/asterisker#Danish" title="asterisker">asterisker</a></span> </td> <td><span class="Latn form-of lang-da def|p-form-of" lang="da"><a href="/wiki/asteriskerne#Danish" title="asteriskerne">asteriskerne</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/genitive_case" title="genitive case">genitive</a> </th> <td><span class="Latn form-of lang-da indef|gen|s-form-of" lang="da"><a href="/wiki/asterisks#Danish" title="asterisks">asterisks</a></span> </td> <td><span class="Latn form-of lang-da def|gen|s-form-of" lang="da"><a href="/wiki/asteriskens#Danish" title="asteriskens">asteriskens</a></span> </td> <td><span class="Latn form-of lang-da indef|gen|p-form-of" lang="da"><a href="/wiki/asteriskers#Danish" 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lang="sv">asterisk</strong> <span class="gender"><abbr title="common gender">c</abbr></span></span> </p> <ol><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#English">asterisk</a></span></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Declension">Declension</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=asterisk&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Declension"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="inflection-table-wrapper inflection-table-narrow inflection-table-indigo inflection-table-collapsible inflection-table-collapsed no-vc" style="width: fit-content" data-toggle-category="inflection"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r83965774"> <table class="inflection-table"> <caption class="inflection-table-title">Declension of <i class="Latn mention" lang="sv">asterisk</i> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th class="outer"> </th> <th> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/nominative" title="nominative">nominative</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/genitive" title="genitive">genitive</a> </th></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="2" class="outer">singular </th> <th><a href="/wiki/indefinite" title="indefinite">indefinite</a> </th> <td><span class="Latn form-of lang-sv indef|nom|s-form-of" lang="sv"><strong class="selflink"><span class="Latn" lang="sv"><strong class="selflink">asterisk</strong></span></strong></span> </td> <td><span class="Latn form-of lang-sv indef|gen|s-form-of" lang="sv"><span class="Latn" lang="sv"><a href="/wiki/asterisks#Swedish" title="asterisks">asterisks</a></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/definite" title="definite">definite</a> </th> <td><span class="Latn form-of lang-sv def|nom|s-form-of" lang="sv"><span class="Latn" lang="sv"><a href="/wiki/asterisken#Swedish" title="asterisken">asterisken</a></span></span> </td> <td><span class="Latn form-of lang-sv def|gen|s-form-of" 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