aspis
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Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀσπίς (aspís).
Pronunciation
Noun
aspis (plural aspides)
- A type of round shield borne by ancient Greek soldiers
- (archaic) An asp or generic venomous snake
- 1588, Robert Greene, “The History of Dorastus and Fawnia”, in Pandosto: The Triumph of Time, published 1907:
- Flesh dipped in the sea Ægeum will never be sweet; the herb Trigion being once bit with an aspis never groweth, and conscience once stained with innocent blood is always tied to a guilty remorse.
- (palynology) A prominent ring of thickened exine around a pore on a pollen grain
- 1974, Eugene Cecil Ogden, Manual for Sampling Airborne Pollen, →ISBN, page 128:
- As might be expected, characters of the aspides themselves are not of much value in pollen identification, but they are easily recognized and many three-pored, aspidate grains are broadly categorized as "betuloid" in studies of airborne pollen.
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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 ἀσπίς (aspís).
Pronunciation
Noun
aspis m (plural aspides or aspides)
Derived terms
- aspisadder
- aspisslang
- Egyptische aspis
Pronunciation
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Noun
aspis m
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀσπίς (aspís, “round shield or asp”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈas.pis/, [ˈäs̠pɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈas.pis/, [ˈäspis]
Noun
aspis f (genitive aspidis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
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
Noun
aspis m pl
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