asp

See also: Asp and ASP

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æsp/

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• Rhymes: -æsp

Etymology 1

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

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. (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.

5. A type of European fish (Aspius aspius).

Synonyms

• (Vipera aspis): asp viper, European asp, aspis viper

Translations

water snake — see water snake

Vipera aspis

• Catalan: escurçó pirinenc m
• Dutch: aspisadder c
• Finnish: aspiskyy (fi)
• French: aspic (fr) m
• German: Aspisviper f
• Greek: αστρίτης (el) m (astrítis)
• Italian: aspide (it) m

• Polish: żmija żebrowana f
• Portuguese: áspide f
• Russian: а́списовая гадю́ка f (áspisovaja gadjúka)
• Spanish: áspid (es) m
• Swedish: aspishuggorm

Naja haje — see Egyptian cobra

fish Aspius aspius

• Czech: bolen dravý (cs)
• Danish: asp c
• Dutch: roofblei (nl) f
• Finnish: toutain (fi)
• French: aspe (fr) m
• German: Rapfen (de) m, Schied (de) m
• Hungarian: balin (hu), őn
• Italian: aspio m

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: asp (no) m

• Polish: boleń (pl) m
• Romanian: avat (ro) m
• Russian: же́рех (ru) m (žérex)
• Swedish: asp (sv) c
• Ukrainian: біли́зна (uk) f (bilýzna), же́рех m (žérex)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Ewe: ^{(please verify)} fli
• Irish: ^{(please verify)} asp f, ^{(please verify)} foiléasán m (literary)

• Latin: ^{(please verify)} aspis f

Etymology 2

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

asp (plural asps)

1. 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."

Etymology 3

Noun

asp

1. (UK, law, in citation) Initialism of Act of the Scottish Parliament.

   Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009 (2009 asp 9)

Translations

aspen — see aspen

Anagrams

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

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Irish

Etymology

From Latin aspis (“asp, viper; shield”), from Ancient Greek ἀσπίς (aspís, “shield; Egyptian cobra”).

Noun

asp f (genitive singular aspa, nominative plural aspanna)

1. asp

   Synonym: foiléasán (literary)

Declension

Declension of asp

Third declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative asp aspanna Vocative a asp a aspanna Genitive aspa aspanna Dative asp aspanna

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an asp na haspanna Genitive na haspa na n-aspanna Dative leis an asp don asp leis na haspanna

Mutation

Irish mutation
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

• "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.

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Middle English

Noun

asp

1. Alternative form of aspe

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse ǫsp, ösp.

Noun

asp f or m (definite singular aspa or aspen, indefinite plural asper, definite plural aspene)

1. alternative form of osp

References

• “asp” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

asp m (definite singular aspen, indefinite plural aspar, definite plural aspane)

1. (zoology) asp (Aspius aspius)

References

• “asp” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse ǫsp, from Proto-Germanic *aspō, from Proto-Indo-European *Hosp- (“aspen, poplar”).

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
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	asp	aspen	aspar	asparna
Genitive	asps	aspens	aspars	asparnas

Anagrams

• SAP, spa.

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse ǫsp, from Proto-Germanic *aspō, from Proto-Indo-European *Hosp- (“aspen, poplar”). Cognate with Swedish asp

Pronunciation

• (Umeå) IPA^(key): [¹asːp]
• (Bygdeå, Burträsk, Lövånger, Skellefteå) IPA^(key): [¹æsːp]

  Rhymes: -óːr

Noun

asp f (definite aspʼa, plural aspʼ, definite plural aspen)

1. Aspen.

Derived terms

• aspskav