asp
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English aspe, from Old French aspe, from Latin aspis, aspidis (“asp, viper; shield”), from Ancient Greek ἀσπίς (aspís, “shield; Egyptian cobra Naja haje”); compare Middle English aspide.
Noun[edit]
asp (plural asps)
- (archaic) A water snake.
- A venomous viper native to southwestern Europe (Vipera aspis).
- The Egyptian cobra (Naja haje).
- (figuratively) An evil person; a snake.
- 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure[1]:
- 'Two thousand years ago did thou and I and that Egyptian asp rest therein, but since then have I not set foot here, nor any man, and perchance it has fallen,' and, followed by the rest of us, she passed up a vast flight of broken and ruined steps into the outer court, and looked round into the gloom.
- A type of European fish (Aspius aspius).
Synonyms[edit]
- (Vipera aspis): asp viper, European asp, aspis viper
Translations[edit]
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Etymology 2[edit]
From Middle English aspe (aspen (in compounds)), from Old English æspe (æspan (in compounds)), from Proto-West Germanic *aspu, from Proto-Germanic *aspō, from Proto-Indo-European *Hosp-.
See also Dutch esp, German Espe, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål asp, Norwegian Nynorsk osp; also Welsh aethnen, Latin abiēs (“fir”), Latvian apse, Polish osa, Old Armenian ոփի (opʿi, “poplar”).
Noun[edit]
asp (plural asps)
- The 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."
- 1997, B. Franklin Cooling, Fort Donelson's Legacy (page 233)
Etymology 3[edit]
Noun[edit]
asp
- (UK, law, in citation) Initialism of Act of the Scottish Parliament.
- Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009 (2009 asp 9)
Translations[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Irish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin aspis (“asp, viper; shield”), from Ancient Greek ἀσπίς (aspís, “shield; Egyptian cobra”).
Noun[edit]
asp f (genitive singular aspa, nominative plural aspanna)
Declension[edit]
Mutation[edit]
Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
asp | n-asp | hasp | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading[edit]
- "asp" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- “asp” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
- Entries containing “asp” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
asp
- Alternative form of aspe
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
asp f or m (definite singular aspa or aspen, indefinite plural asper, definite plural aspene)
- alternative form of osp
References[edit]
- “asp” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Noun[edit]
asp m (definite singular aspen, indefinite plural aspar, definite plural aspane)
- (zoology) asp (Aspius aspius)
References[edit]
- “asp” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse ǫsp, from Proto-Germanic *aspō, from Proto-Indo-European *Hosp- (“aspen, poplar”).
Noun[edit]
asp c
- Aspen; a type of poplar tree. (Populus tremula)
- A type of fish. (Aspius aspius)
- An African snake. (Vipera aspis)
Declension[edit]
Declension of asp | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | asp | aspen | aspar | asparna |
Genitive | asps | aspens | aspars | asparnas |
Anagrams[edit]
Westrobothnian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse ǫsp, from Proto-Germanic *aspō, from Proto-Indo-European *Hosp- (“aspen, poplar”). Cognate with Swedish asp
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Umeå) IPA(key): [¹asːp][1]
- (Bygdeå, Burträsk, Lövånger, Skellefteå) IPA(key): [¹æsːp][1]
- Rhymes: -óːr
Noun[edit]
asp f (definite aspʼa, plural aspʼ, definite plural aspen)
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/æsp
- Rhymes:English/æsp/1 syllable
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with archaic senses
- English terms with quotations
- English terms inherited from Old English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- British English
- en:Law
- English initialisms
- English terms with usage examples
- en:Elapid snakes
- en:Leuciscine fish
- en:Vipers
- en:Willows and poplars
- Irish terms derived from Latin
- Irish terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish feminine nouns
- Irish third-declension nouns
- ga:Snakes
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål terms inherited from Old Norse
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål feminine nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns with multiple genders
- nb:Trees
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk masculine nouns
- nn:Fish
- Swedish terms inherited from Old Norse
- Swedish terms derived from Old Norse
- Swedish terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Swedish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Swedish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- sv:Fish
- sv:Snakes
- sv:Trees
- sv:Cyprinids
- sv:Willows and poplars
- Westrobothnian terms inherited from Old Norse
- Westrobothnian terms derived from Old Norse
- Westrobothnian terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Westrobothnian terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Westrobothnian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Westrobothnian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Westrobothnian/óːr
- Westrobothnian lemmas
- Westrobothnian nouns
- Westrobothnian feminine nouns