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Asper
Asper As"per ([a^]s"p[~e]r), a. [OE. aspre, OF. aspre, F.
[^a]pre, fr. L. asper rough.]
Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce. [Archaic] ``An
asper sound.' --Bacon.
Asper
Asper As"per ([a^]s"p[~e]r), n. [L. spiritus asper rough
breathing.] (Greek Gram.)
The rough breathing; a mark ([asper]) placed over an initial
vowel sound or over [rho] to show that it is aspirated, that
is, pronounced with h before it; thus "ws, pronounced h[=o]s,
"rh`twr, pronounced hr[=a]"t[=o]r.
Meaning of Asper from wikipedia
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Asper or
asper in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Asper or
ASPER may
refer to: Akçe, an
Ottoman silver coin,
similar to the aspron,
known as
asper or...
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Bothrops asper (Garman, 1884[1883]):
Terciopelo (English) In
recent decades,
herpetologists have
preferred the name 'terciopelo' for
Bothrops asper, although...
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Leonard Asper is the son of the late Izzy
Asper,
founder of
CanWest Global Communications Corp. He is the
younger brother of Gail
Asper and
David Asper. He...
- "Sonchus
asper".
PLANTS Database.
United States Department of
Agriculture (USDA).
Retrieved 19
November 2015.
Flora of
North America,
Sonchus asper (Linnaeus)...
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Sulpicius Asper was a
centurion of
ancient Rome who
lived in the 1st
century CE, and was one of the
bodyguards of the
Roman emperor Nero.
Asper was one...
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President Leonard Asper,
former director and
corporate secretary Gail
Asper, and
former Executive Vice
President David Asper. He was also the leader...
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Asper is a surname.
Notable people with the
surname include:
Aemilius Asper, 1st or 2nd
century Latin grammarian Gaius Julius Asper,
Ancient Roman politician...
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Aemilius Asper,
Latin grammarian,
possibly lived in the 1st
century AD or late 2nd
century AD.
Aemilius Asper wrote commentaries on Terence,
Sallust and...
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asp in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Asp may
refer to:
Asp, part of Densbüren, Aargau,
Switzerland Aspe (
Asp in Valencian), Alicante,
Spain Asp Lake...
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Gaius Julius Asper was a
Roman politician and
senator in the
third century AD.
Asper came from the city of
Attalia in Asia Minor. He was
promoted to a...