Pejorative Suffix - Latin

Latin

-aster, denoting fraudulent resemblance, e.g. patraster "one who plays the father" (from pater "father")

Read more about this topic:  Pejorative Suffix

Famous quotes containing the word latin:

    Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
    Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953)

    Not only does the world scarcely know who the Latin American man is, the world has barely cared.
    Georgie Anne Geyer (b. 1935)

    She’s a Latin from Manhattan.
    Al Dubin (1891–1945)