different between aspen vs asp

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æsp?n/

Etymology 1

From Middle English aspen, corresponding to asp +? -en.

Adjective

aspen (comparative more aspen, superlative most aspen)

1. Pertaining to the asp or aspen tree.
2. (obsolete) Tremulous, trembling.
   • a. 1631, John Donne, ‘The Apparition’, Poems (1633):

     And then poore Aspen wretch, neglected thou / Bath'd in a cold quicksilver sweat wilt lye / A veryer ghost than I […].

3. (obsolete) Of a woman's tongue: wagging, gossiping.

Etymology 2

From Middle English aspen, from Old English æspen, Old English æspan (combining form), from Old English æspe (“aspen”). More at asp.

Noun

aspen (plural aspens)

1. The asp tree; a kind of poplar tree (genus Populus sect. Populus). A medium-size tree with thin, straight trunks of a greenish-white color.

   Above a certain elevation, the aspens gave way to scrubby, gnarled pines.

   • Instead there were the white of aspens, streaks of branch and slender trunk glistening from the green of leaves […] .

2. (uncountable) The wood of such a tree; usually pale, lightweight and soft.

   She claimed that aspen was the only "proper" material from which make a wicker basket.

Hyponyms

• (poplar tree): Chinese aspen - Populus adenopoda, bigtooth aspen - Populus grandidentata, Japanese aspen - Populus sieboldii, Eurasian aspen - Populus tremula, quaking aspen - Populus tremuloides

Translations

Anagrams

• NAPEs, Panes, Snape, Spean, napes, neaps, panes, peans, snape, sneap, spane, spean

Middle English

Alternative forms

• aspyn, espyn

Etymology

From aspe (from Old English æspe) + -en.

Adjective

aspen

1. Made of or pertaining to asp trees.

Descendants

• English: aspen

References

• “aspe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2 May 2018.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• aspa

Noun

aspen m or f

1. definite masculine singular of asp

Spanish

Verb

aspen

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present subjunctive form of aspar.
2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present subjunctive form of aspar.
3. Second-person plural (ustedes) imperative form of aspar.

Swedish

Noun

aspen

1. definite singular of asp

Anagrams

• espan, senap

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.