asp

Meaning

Noun

• A water snake.
• A venomous viper native to southwestern Europe (Vipera aspis (species)).
• The Egyptian cobra (Naja haje (species)).
• An evil person; a snake.
• A type of European fish (Aspius aspius (species)).
• The aspen tree.

Related

Similar words

• asp viper, European asp, aspis viper

Origin

• From Middle English aspe (aspen), from Old English æspe (æspan), from Proto-Germanic *aspō (compare Dutch esp, German Espe, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål asp, Norwegian Nynorsk osp), from Proto-Indo-European *Hosp- (compare Welsh aethnen, Latin abiēs, Latvian apse, Polish osa, Old Armenian ոփի).