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発音

• IPA: /æsp/
• 韻: -æsp

語源 1

From 中期英語 aspe, from Old French aspe, from Latin aspis, aspidis (“asp, viper”), from Ancient Greek ἀσπίς (aspís, “shield; Egyptian cobra Naja haje”); compare 中期英語 aspide.

名詞

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. (figurative) An evil person; a snake.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     '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).
6. (Southern US) The caterpillar of various types of flannel moths which induce an intense pain when their hair is touched.
   1. (by extension) Any caterpillar which inflicts a sharp pain when their hair is touched.

同意語

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

派生語

語源 2

From 中期英語 aspe (aspen (in compounds)), from 古期英語 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 (opʻi, “poplar”).

名詞

asp (plural asps)

1. An aspen tree.

派生語

• quaking asp

語源 3

名詞

asp

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

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

アナグラム

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