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Webster 1913 Edition

Asp

Asp

,
Noun.
(Bot.)
Same as
Aspen
.
“Trembling poplar or asp.”
Martyn.

Asp

(ȧsp)
,
Noun.
[L.
aspis
, fr. Gr.
ἀσπίς
: cf. OF.
aspe
, F.
aspic
.]
(Zool.)
A small, hooded, poisonous serpent of Egypt and adjacent countries, whose bite is often fatal. It is the
Naja haje
. The name is also applied to other poisonous serpents, esp. to
Vipera aspis
of southern Europe. See
Haje
.
{

Asp′en

(ăs′pĕn)
,

Asp

(ȧsp)
, }
Noun.
[AS.
æsp
,
æps
; akin to OHG.
aspa
, Icel.
ösp
, Dan.
æsp
, Sw.
asp
, D.
esp
, G.
espe
,
äspe
,
aspe
; cf. Lettish
apsa
, Lith.
apuszis
.]
(Bot.)
One of several species of poplar bearing this name, especially the
Populus tremula
, so called from the trembling of its leaves, which move with the slightest impulse of the air.

Webster 1828 Edition

Asp

'ASP

,

Definition 2024

Asp

Asp

See also: asp and ASP

Translingual

Noun

Asp

  1. (biochemistry) IUPAC 3-letter abbreviation of aspartic acid

Catalan

Proper noun

Asp m

  1. A town located in the comarca of El Vinalopó Mitjà; Aspe.

asp

asp

See also: Asp and ASP

English

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

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

Irish

Etymology

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

Noun

asp f ‎(genitive singular aspa, nominative plural aspanna)

  1. asp

Declension

Synonyms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
asp n-asp hasp t-asp
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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

Inflection of asp 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative asp aspen aspar asparna
Genitive asps aspens aspars asparnas

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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