Noun: ester
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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To a stede ȝe schulle hunne wende : þurf oure louerdes grace, / Þat is foweles parays : a wel ioyful place : / Þer ȝe schulle þis ester beo : & þis wit-sonedai also. [c. 1280, “Vita sancti Brendani, Abbatis de Hybernia”, in Carl Horstmann, editor, The Early South English Legendary or Lives of Saints, London: N. Trübner & Co., published 1887, page 224:]
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Þre siþe he ber croune aȝer · to midewinter at gloucestre · / To witesonetid at westmunstre · to ester at wincestre · [c. 1300, Robert of Gloucester, edited by William Aldis Wright, The Metrical Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester, London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, published 1887, page 556:]
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Mysbyleued men mysdede neuere þat chirche ; and þat is, as me troweþ, for euery ȝere an Ester eue comeþ fire from heuene, and tendeþ and liȝteþ þe lamps þerynne ; but whan þat miracle bygan first, hit is vncertayne and vnknowe. [a. 1402, “De regione lodœœ”, in John Trevisa, transl., edited by Joseph Rawson Lumby, Polychronicon, page 111:]
Nouns inflected like ester
schimeringe,
synger,
serche,
sengle,
snoute,
saucer,
sauter,
sapour,
saphir,
sachel,
sculle,
scrape,
scrowe,
scisme,
sclate,
schyfe,
schyve,
schole,
schere,
schave, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old English ēaster. See: Old English Nouns '
ēaster'.
Verbs referencing "ester"
English Nouns
Easter.
Translations