asterisk

Etymology
The is derived from, from , from , from  (ultimately from ) +.

(“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. (“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).

The is derived from the noun.

Noun

 * 1)  A small star; also, something resembling or shaped like a star.
 * 2)  The star-shaped symbol *, which is used in printing and writing for various purposes, including to refer a reader to a note at the bottom of a page or in a margin, and to indicate the omission of letters or words; a star.
 * 3) Something resembling or shaped like an asterisk symbol.
 * 4)  Something which is of little importance or which is marginal; a footnote.
 * 5)  A blemish in an otherwise outstanding achievement.
 * 6)  An instrument with radiating arms resembling a star which is placed over the diskos (or paten) used during the Eucharist to prevent the veil covering the chalice and diskos from touching the host on the diskos.
 * 1) Something resembling or shaped like an asterisk symbol.
 * 2)  Something which is of little importance or which is marginal; a footnote.
 * 3)  A blemish in an otherwise outstanding achievement.
 * 4)  An instrument with radiating arms resembling a star which is placed over the diskos (or paten) used during the Eucharist to prevent the veil covering the chalice and diskos from touching the host on the diskos.
 * 1) Something resembling or shaped like an asterisk symbol.
 * 2)  Something which is of little importance or which is marginal; a footnote.
 * 3)  A blemish in an otherwise outstanding achievement.
 * 4)  An instrument with radiating arms resembling a star which is placed over the diskos (or paten) used during the Eucharist to prevent the veil covering the chalice and diskos from touching the host on the diskos.
 * 1)  A blemish in an otherwise outstanding achievement.
 * 2)  An instrument with radiating arms resembling a star which is placed over the diskos (or paten) used during the Eucharist to prevent the veil covering the chalice and diskos from touching the host on the diskos.
 * 1)  An instrument with radiating arms resembling a star which is placed over the diskos (or paten) used during the Eucharist to prevent the veil covering the chalice and diskos from touching the host on the diskos.
 * 1)  An instrument with radiating arms resembling a star which is placed over the diskos (or paten) used during the Eucharist to prevent the veil covering the chalice and diskos from touching the host on the diskos.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * Macedonian: ѕве́здичка
 * Polish:
 * Russian:


 * Afrikaans: asterisk
 * Albanian: asterisk
 * Arabic: إِجَّامَة, نُجَيْمَة⁩
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: asteriscu
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque: istartxo
 * Belarusian: зо́рачка, астэры́ск
 * Bulgarian: звезди́чка
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 星號
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: asterisk,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: steleto, asterisko
 * Estonian: tärnike, tärn
 * Faroese: asteriksur
 * Finnish:, , tähti-merkki
 * French:
 * Galician: asterisco
 * Georgian:
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἀστερίσκος
 * Hebrew: כּוֹכָבִית
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: ,
 * Indonesian: tanda bintang,, asteris
 * Interlingua: asterisco
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 星印, 星号, ,
 * Kalmyk: астериск
 * Kazakh: жұлдызша
 * Korean:, 애스터리스크
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latin: asterīscus
 * Latvian: zvaigznīte
 * Lithuanian: asteriskas, žvaigždutė
 * Macedonian: ѕве́здичка
 * Malay: tanda bintang
 * Maltese: asteriks
 * Norman: astérisque, êtaile
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Nynorsk: asterisk,
 * Ottoman Turkish: یلدز
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi:
 * Gurmukhi:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: reul
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: звѐздица, звјѐздица, а̏стериск
 * Roman:, ,
 * Slovak: hviezdička
 * Slovene: zvezdica
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: talantanda
 * Tajik: ситорача,
 * Tamil:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:, yıldız imi, yıldız işareti,
 * Ukrainian:, астери́ск
 * Urdu:
 * Uyghur: يۇلتۇزچە
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: dấu sao, dấu hoa thị
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:, serennig
 * Yiddish: שטערנדל


 * Finnish:
 * Macedonian:


 * Finnish: ,
 * Macedonian:
 * Russian:

Verb

 * 1)  To mark or replace (text, etc.) with an asterisk symbol (*; noun ); to star.

Translations

 * Finnish: korvata tähtimerkillä, korvata tähtimerkeillä
 * Macedonian:
 * Yiddish: באַשטערנדלען