stage, step, state, phase (distinct part of a process) · degree, extent, proportion · degree (individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values)
çekim: çoğul asteet · tamlayan asteen
köken: astua (“to step”) + -e. Coined by Finnish physician and translator Wolmar Schildt in 1846, based on dialectal “step (in stairs)”, cases of which was also used as adverbs with more figurative meanings like those currently used.
aile: asteikko, -asteinen, asteittain, ala-aste, alkuaste, alokasaste, arvoaste, aste-ero, astejako, astejaotus