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Webster 1913 Edition
Asp
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
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Asp
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English
Noun
asp (plural asps)
- (archaic) A water snake.
- A venomous viper native to southwestern Europe (Vipera aspis).
- The Egyptian cobra (Naja haje)
- A type of European fish (Aspius aspius).
Translations
water snake
|
Vipera aspis
Egyptian cobra — see Egyptian cobra
fish
Etymology 2
Shortening of aspen
Noun
asp (plural asps)
- 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."
- 1997, B. Franklin Cooling, Fort Donelson's Legacy (page 233)
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)
Declension
Declension of asp
Third declension
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Synonyms
- foiléasán (literary)
Mutation
Irish mutation | |||
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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
- "asp" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Noun
asp f, m (definite singular aspa or aspen, indefinite plural asper, definite plural aspene)
- alternative form of osp
References
- “asp” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse ǫsp, from Proto-Germanic *aspǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *Hosp- (“aspen, poplar”).
Noun
asp c
- Aspen; a type of poplar tree. (Populus tremula)
- A type of fish. (Aspius aspius)
- An African snake. (Vipera aspis)
Declension
Inflection of asp | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | asp | aspen | aspar | asparna |
Genitive | asps | aspens | aspars | asparnas |