different between aspis vs aspic

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

Borrowed from French aspic, from Latin aspis, and possibly influenced by French basilic (“basilisk”). The culinary sense may come from association with the snake due to the traditional colours and cold temperature of aspic, in addition to the fact that the gelatine was often moulded in a shape similar to a coiled snake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æsp?k/

Noun

aspic (plural aspics)

1. A meat or fish jelly
   • 1819, Frederick Nutt, Nutt, F. (1819). The Imperial and Royal Cook. Consisting of the Most Sumptuous Made Dishes ... Including the Latest Improvements in Fashionable Life. 2nd Ed. United Kingdom: Samuel Leigh: Baldwin, Cradock; Joy. - p.265

     “Put a little aspic in the mould, so as to cover the bottom ···“

2. A dish in which ingredients are set into a gelatine, jelly-like substance made from a meat stock or consommé.
   • 1943, Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, Bobbs Merrill, page 441:

     "I don't know what you mean, Mr. Wynand," whispered Keating. His eyes fixed upon the tomato aspic on his salad plate; it was soft and shivering; it made him sick.

3. (obsolete, poetic) An asp, a small venomous snake of Egypt.
   • 1623, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra:

     This is an aspic's trail: and these fig-leaves / Have slime upon them, such as the aspic leaves.

   • 1833, Lord Alfred Tennyson, "A Dream of Fair Women":

     (With that she tore her robe apart, and half / The polished argent of her breast to sight / Laid bare. Thereto she pointed with a laugh, / Showing the aspic's bite. )

4. A piece of ordnance carrying a 12-pound shot.

Translations

See also

• brawn
• head cheese
• meat jelly

Adjective

aspic (not comparable)

1. Aspish; relating to an asp, a small venomous snake of Egypt.
   • 1923, Wallace Stevens, "In the Carolinas," Harmonium, Faber and Faber (2001), ?ISBN, page 3,

     Timeless mother, / How is it that your aspic nipples / For once vent honey?

Anagrams

• APICs, CISPA, ISPCA, PICAs, Spica, pacis, picas, scapi, spica

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /as.pik/

Etymology 1

From Latin aspis, and possibly influenced by basilic (“basilisk”). The culinary sense may come from association with the snake due to the traditional colours and cold temperature of aspic, in addition to the fact that the gelatine was often moulded in a shape similar to a coiled snake.

Noun

aspic m (plural aspics)

1. asp (Vipera aspis)
2. asp (Naja haje)
3. slanderer, libeller
4. (cooking) aspic (dish)
5. (slang, dated, rare) miser

Descendants

• ? Catalan: aspic
• ? Dutch: aspic
• ? English: aspic
• ? German: Aspik
• ? Japanese: ?????
• ? Korean: ??? (aseupik)
• ? Spanish: áspic

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Occitan aspic (“ear (of grain), lavender”), from Latin spicum. Doublet of spic.

Noun

aspic m (plural aspics)

1. spike lavender, Lavandula latifolia

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French aspic.

Noun

aspic m (invariable)

1. aspic

Anagrams

• cispa
• pasci
• scapi
• spica

Romanian

Etymology

From French aspic.

Noun

aspic n (plural aspicuri)

1. aspic

Declension