jasper

Meanings

Noun

• Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian.
• An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.
• Jasperware pottery.
• A wasp.
• A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple.

Verb

• To decorate with, or as if with, jasper.

Origin

• From Middle English jasper, jaspre, from Old French jaspre, a variant of jaspe (modern French jaspe), from Latin iaspis, from Ancient Greek ἴασπις.
• From the male personal name Jasper.