aspis

From Ancient Greek ἀσπίς (aspís).

• IPA^(key): /ˈæspɪs/

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aspis (plural aspides)

1. A type of round shield borne by ancient Greek soldiers
   • 1963, William Kurtz Wimsatt, What to Say About a Poem and Other Essays‎, page 39:

     "shield both large and tough" has never said that aspides are small and weak […]

2. (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.

3. (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.

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

• aspidate

• AISPs, IASPs, apsis

(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).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑs.pɪs/

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• Hyphenation: as‧pis

aspis m (plural aspides or aspides)

1. asp

• aspisadder
• aspisslang
• Egyptische aspis

aspis m

1. plural of aspi

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈas.pis/, [ˈäs̠pɪs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈas.pis/, [ˈäspis]

aspis f (genitive aspidis); third declension

1. asp (venomous snake)
2. viper

Third-declension noun.

• → Catalan: àspid
• → English: aspis
• → Galician: áspide
• → Italian: aspide
• → Portuguese: áspide
• → Spanish: áspid

• “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

aspis m pl

1. plural of aspi