different between asp vs espa

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.

Icelandic

Verb

1. to agitate or excite,