instar

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) instar, which is of obscure origin.

• Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈɪnstɑː/
• Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈɪnstɑɹ/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Hyphenation: in‧star
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter)

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instar (plural instars)

1. Any one of the several stages of postembryonic development which an arthropod undergoes, between molts, before it reaches sexual maturity.
2. An arthropod at a specified one of these stages of development.
   • 2005, Nematodes as biocontrol agents (edited by Parwinder S. Grewal, Ralf-Udo Ehlers, David I. Shapiro-Ilan), page 133:

     In A. orientalis, first and second instars were more susceptible than third instars to H. bacteriophora TF strain, […]

3. (deprecated template usage) (by extension) A stage in development.
   • 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:

     We avoided Tourist Homes, country cousins of Funeral ones, old-fashioned, genteel and showerless, with elaborate dressing tables in depressingly white-and-pink little bedrooms, and photographs of the landlady’s children in all their instars.

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• Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈstɑː/
• Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈstɑɹ/

instar (third-person singular simple present instars, present participle instarring, simple past and past participle instarred)

1. (deprecated template usage) (archaic) To stud with stars.
   • 1882, Frederick Randolph Abbe, The temple rebuilt: a poem, page 125:

     Yet mark with shining steps the humbler way;

     And, as angelic feet instar the sky,

     Drop the bright sparks along the wilderness.

   • 1893, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 72, page 507:

     Espey could distinguish through the clear darkness the fringed branches of a pine-tree clinging to the heights above and waving against the instarred sky, and below a vague moving whiteness […]

   • 1896, Mary Noailles Murfree (pseudonym Charles Egbert Craddock) In the Tennessee mountains, edition 14, page 209:

     He was dreaming, surely; or were those deep, instarred eyes really fixed upon him with that wistful gaze which he had seen only twice before?

• sartin, strain, trains

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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin īnstar (“of the same weight”).

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.staʁ/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Hyphenation: in‧star

instar

1. Only used in Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "à l'instar de" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.

• “instar”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Of obscure origin.

• Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Classical" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈiːn.star/

īnstar n

1. image, likeness, resemblance
2. counterpart
3. worth, value
4. an equal form (of)

Template:la-decl-indecl

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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin īnstō (“urge, insist”).

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ins.ˈtaɾ/

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1. (deprecated template usage) (transitive) to urge, to be urgent

Template:es-conj-ar

• instancia