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      • Ad astra is a Latin phrase meaning "to the stars". The phrase has origins with Virgil, who wrote in his Aeneid: " sic itur ad astra " ('thus one journeys to the stars') and " opta ardua pennis astra sequi " ('desire to pursue the high hard to reach] stars on wings').
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    Ad astra is a Latin phrase meaning "to the stars". The phrase has origins with Virgil, who wrote in his Aeneid: "sic itur ad astra" ('thus one journeys to the stars') [1] and "opta ardua pennis astra sequi" ('desire to pursue the high[/hard to reach] stars on wings'). [2]

  3. asterisk. The figure of a star, thus, ?, used in printing and writing as a reference to a passage or note in the margin, to supply the omission of letters or words, or to mark a word or phrase as having a special character.

  4. Jan 20, 2023 · Aster and astrum are borrowings from Greek ἀστήρ and ἄστρον. The former is also a name given to e.g. a plant and some type of clay, but you can find it used for any given star, too. The latter is the more common of the two when it refers to stars, and in the plural usually refers to the heavens as a whole (as it does in Greek, too).

  5. Origin & history. Latin ad ("to") + astra ("stars"), the accusative plural of astrum ("star"). Phrase. ad astra. to the stars. Per aspera ad astra. Through difficulties to the stars. Examples. Automatically generated practical examples in Latin: Per aspera ad astra. Tatoeba.org Sentence 431794. Hac itur ad astra. Tatoeba.org Sentence 5162836.

  6. “Ad astra” means “to the stars.” Latin is often used to look prestigious or academic—- if you know it in a higher-level institution, or even allude to knowing it, generally you look “more educated.” It’s a little odd but oh well. English takes the root “astra” from Greek*, we use it for English words like Astronomy or ...

  7. Sep 6, 2024 · This is a list of Ancient Greek words with their derivatives in English. Each Ancient Greek word is shown in its citation form and in its root form. The citation form is the one commonly shown in dictionaries. The root form is the one that is often used to form compound words.

  8. May 15, 2024 · Most words in the English language are based on words from ancient Greek and Latin. The root of the word "vocabulary," for example, is voc, a Latin root meaning "word" or "name." This root also appears in such words as "advocacy," "convocation," "evocative," "vocal," and "vowel."

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