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

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).

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

From Middle English aspe (aspen (in compounds)), from Old English æspe (æspan (in compounds)), from Proto-Germanic *aspō (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').

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."

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

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

asp f (genitive singular aspa, nominative plural aspanna)

1. asp

   Synonym: foiléasán (literary)

• "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.

asp

1. Alternative form of aspe

From Old Norse ǫsp, ösp.

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

1. alternative form of osp

• “asp” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

asp c

1. Aspen; a type of poplar tree. (Populus tremula)
2. A type of fish. (Aspius aspius)
3. An African snake. (Vipera aspis)