asp

See also: Asp and ASP

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Etymology 1

From Latin aspis (“asp, viper; shield”), aspidis, from Ancient Greek ἀσπίς (aspis, “shield; Egyptian cobra Naja haje”)

Noun

asp (plural asps)

1. (archaic) A water snake.
2. A venomous viper native to southwestern Europe (Vipera aspis).
3. The Egyptian cobra (Naja haje)
4. A type of European fish (Aspius aspius).

Translations

water snake

• Portuguese: áspide

Vipera aspis

• Finnish: aspiskyy
• Greek: αστρίτης (el) m (astrítis)

• Portuguese: áspide
• Spanish: áspid m

Egyptian cobra — see Egyptian cobra

fish

• Finnish: toutain (fi)
• Polish: boleń m

• Swedish: asp (sv) c

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• Ewe: fli
• Latin: aspis f

Etymology 2

Shortening of aspen

Noun

asp (plural asps)

1. An aspen tree.
   • 1997, B. Franklin Cooling, Fort Donelson's Legacy (page 233)

     Having decimated groves of cedar, quaking asps, weeping willows, poplars, and fruit trees on the last day of January, Alva C. Griest of the Seventy-second Indiana believed he "was doing wrong all the time we were at it."

Anagrams

• APS, PAs, Pas, pas, PSA, Psa., SAP, s.ap., sap, Spa, spa

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Swedish

Noun

asp c

1. Aspen; a type of poplar tree. (Populus tremula)
2. A type of fish. (Aspius aspius)
3. An African snake. (Vipera aspis)

Declension

Declension of asp

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	asp	aspen	aspar	asparna
genitive	asps	aspens	aspars	asparnas