different between cornelian vs jasper

English

Etymology 1

From Old French corneline (French cornaline), from Medieval Latin cornus or cornum after the berry Cornus mas (cornelian cherry).

Noun

cornelian (countable and uncountable, plural cornelians)

1. Alternative form of carnelian
2. Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Deudorix.

Etymology 2

Noun

cornelian (plural cornelians)

1. The cornelian cherry (fruit).

References

Anagrams

• lecanorin

English

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: j?s?p?r
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?æsp?/

Etymology 1

From Middle English jasper, jaspre, from Old French jaspre, a variant of jaspe (modern French jaspe), from Latin iaspis, from Ancient Greek ?????? (íaspis).

Noun

jasper (countable and uncountable, plural jaspers)

1. (obsolete) Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian.
2. An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.
3. Jasperware pottery.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• jasperware

Verb

jasper (third-person singular simple present jaspers, present participle jaspering, simple past and past participle jaspered)

1. (transitive) To decorate with, or as if with, jasper.

Etymology 2

From the male personal name Jasper.

Noun

jasper (plural jaspers)

1. (Britain, West Country, Somerset, colloquial) A wasp.
2. (US, slang) A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple.
   • 1957, Meredith Willson, "Ya Got Trouble", The Music Man:

     And list'nin to some big out-a-town jasper / Hearin' him tell about horse-race gamblin' / Not a wholesome trottin' race, no!

   • 1975, Tom Waits, ‘Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)’:

     Standing on the corner like a just-got-in-town jasper.

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 122:

     “That jasper,” sniggered Darby, “never pulled out his ‘dummy’ for nothing but pissing, I bet you!”

   • 1968, Charles Portis, True Grit, The Saturday Evening Post

     "I stood there through almost an hour of it before they called Rooster Cogburn to the stand. I had guessed wrong as to which one he was, picking out a younger and slighter man with a badge on his shirt. And I was surprised when an old one-eyed jasper that was built along the lines of Grover Cleveland went up and was sworn."

Anagrams

• japers

French

Verb

jasper

1. apply different colors of paint flowing together in order to make it look like jasper stone

   Jasper la tranche d’un livre.

Conjugation

Further reading

• “jasper” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).