asp

See also: Asp and ASP

English

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Etymology 1

From Latin aspis, aspidis (“asp, viper; shield”), from Ancient Greek ἀσπίς (aspís, “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).
Synonyms
  • (Vipera aspis): asp viper, European asp, aspis viper
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Etymology 2

From Middle English aspe (aspen (in compounds)), from Old English æspe (æspan (in compounds)), from Proto-Germanic *aspǭ (compare Dutch esp, German Espe, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål asp, Norwegian Nynorsk osp), from Proto-Indo-European *Hosp- (compare Welsh aethnen, Latin abiēs 'fir', Latvian apse, Polish osa, Armenian op'i '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."
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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

Mutation

Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith 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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse ǫsp, ösp.

Noun

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

  1. alternative form of osp

References

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse ǫsp, from Proto-Germanic *aspǭ, 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
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