different between adder vs asp

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?æd?/
• Rhymes: -æd?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English nadder, addere, rebracketing of “a naddere” as “an addere”, from Old English n?dre, n?ddre (“snake, serpent, viper, adder”), from Proto-Germanic *nadr? (“snake, viper”) (compare West Frisian njirre, Dutch adder, German Natter, Otter), from pre-Germanic *néh?treh?, variant of Proto-Indo-European *n?h?trih? (compare Welsh neidr, Latin natr?x (“watersnake”)), from *(s)neh?- (“to spin, twist”) (compare Dutch naaien).

Alternative forms

• edder (dialectal)

Noun

adder (plural adders)

1. (obsolete) Any snake.
   • 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II Scene 2

     CALIBAN:

     [...]

     His spirits hear me,

     And yet I needs must curse. But they'll nor pinch

     Fright me with urchin-shows, pitch me i'th' mire,

     Nor lead me like a firebrand in the dark

     Out of my way, unless he bid 'em; but

     For every trifle are they set upon me,

     Sometimes like apes that mow and chatter at me,

     And after bite me; then like hedgehogs, which

     Lie tumbling in my barefoot way, and mount

     Their pricks at my footfall; sometimes am I

     All wound with adders, who with their cloven tongues

     Do hiss me into madness—

     [...]

2. A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling the viper; a viper.
   1. (chiefly Britain) A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera
      1. The common European adder (Vipera berus).
   2. The puff adders, of Africa (genus Bitis).
   3. (US, Canada) Any of several small nonvenomous snakes resembling adders
      1. Lampropeltis triangulum (milk snake).
      2. Heterodon spp. (hog-nosed snakes), a genus of harmless colubrid snakes found in North America
   4. Certain venomous snakes resembling other adders
      1. Acanthophis spp. (death adders), elapid snakes found in Southeast Asia and Australia
      2. Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen, the northern copperhead, a venomous viper found in the eastern United States
   5. A sea stickleback or adder fish (Spinachia spinachia).

Derived terms

• adder fish
• death adder
• puff adder (Bitis arietans)

Translations

Etymology 2

From add +? -er.

Noun

adder (plural adders)

1. Someone who or something which performs arithmetic addition; a machine for adding numbers.
2. An electronic device that adds voltages, currents or frequencies.
3. Something which adds or increases.

Derived terms

• carry-lookahead adder
• carry-save adder
• carry-skip adder
• full adder
• half adder

Translations

Further reading

• adder on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• dared, dread, radde, re-add, readd

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch adder, from Middle Dutch adder, adre, misdivison of nadder, nadre, from Old Dutch *nadra, from Proto-Germanic *nadr?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ad?r/

Noun

adder (plural adders, diminutive addertjie)

1. viper, adder

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch adder, adre, misdivison of nadder, nadre, from Old Dutch *nadra, from Proto-West Germanic *nadr?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.d?r/
• Hyphenation: ad?der
• Rhymes: -?d?r

Noun

adder m or f (plural adders or adderen, diminutive addertje n)

1. viper, adder; snake of the family Viperidae
2. common viper, Vipera berus

Hypernyms

• slang

Derived terms

• addergebroed
• boomadder
• een adder aan zijn borst koesteren
• een addertje onder het gras
• groefkopadder
• pofadder

Descendants

• Afrikaans: adder

Anagrams

• dader

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

adder

1. imperative of addere

Old Prussian

Conjunction

adder

1. or

   w?iklis adder m?rg? - boy or girl

2. but

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æsp/
• Rhymes: -æsp

Etymology 1

From Latin aspis, aspidis (“asp, viper; shield”), from Ancient Greek ????? (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. (figuratively) An evil person; a snake.
5. A type of European fish (Aspius aspius).

Synonyms

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

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English aspe (aspen (in compounds)), from Old English æspe (æspan (in compounds)), from Proto-Germanic *asp? (compare Dutch esp, German Espe, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål asp, Norwegian Nynorsk osp), from Proto-Indo-European *Hosp- (compare Welsh aethnen, Latin abi?s (“fir”), Latvian apse, Polish osa, Old 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."

Translations

Anagrams

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

Irish

Etymology

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

Noun

asp f (genitive singular aspa, nominative plural aspanna)

1. asp

   Synonym: foiléasán (literary)

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "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.

Middle English

Noun

asp

1. Alternative form of aspe

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse ?sp, ösp.

Noun

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

1. alternative form of osp

References

• “asp” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

asp m (definite singular aspen, indefinite plural aspar, definite plural aspane)

1. (zoology) asp (Aspius aspius)

References

• “asp” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse ?sp, from Proto-Germanic *asp?, 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

Anagrams

• SAP, spa.