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English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (aspís)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æsp?s/

Noun

aspis (plural aspides)

1. A type of round shield borne by ancient Greek soldiers
2. (archaic) An asp or generic venomous snake
3. (palynology) A prominent ring of thickened exine around a pore on a pollen grain

Coordinate terms

• (type of shield): hoplon
• (ring of exine): annulus

Derived terms

• aspidate

Anagrams

• AISPs, IASPs, apsis

Dutch

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Was the Middle Dutch word directly borrowed from Latin?”)From Middle Dutch aspis, (ultimately) from Latin aspis, from Ancient Greek ????? (aspís).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s.p?s/
• Hyphenation: as?pis

Noun

aspis m (plural aspides or aspides)

1. asp

Derived terms

• aspisadder
• aspisslang
• Egyptische aspis

French

Noun

aspis m

1. plural of aspi

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (aspís, “round shield or asp”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?as.pis/, [?äs?p?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?as.pis/, [??spis]

Noun

aspis f (genitive aspidis); third declension

1. asp (venomous snake)
2. viper

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• Catalan: àspid
• Galician: áspide
• Portuguese: áspide
• Spanish: áspid

References

• aspis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aspis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aspis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• aspis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aspis in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• aspis in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

English

Etymology

From Latin apsis, hapsis, from Ancient Greek ???? (hapsís, “arch, vault”). See also apse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æps?s/

Noun

apsis (plural apsides)

1. (architecture) A recess or projection, with a dome or vault, at the east end of a church; an apse.
2. (astronomy) Either of the points in the elliptical orbit of a planet or comet where it is closest or furthest from the sun; perihelion or aphelion; an apside

Derived terms

• periapsis
• apoapsis

Translations

Anagrams

• AISPs, IASPs, aspis

Finnish

Noun

apsis

1. (rare) An apse (architectural element).

Declension

Synonyms

• kuori

Anagrams

• passi, pissa