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aspers

aspers is the plural of asper.

Meaning of asper

Noun (1)

asper (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Rough breathing; a mark (#) indicating that part of a word is aspirated, or pronounced with h before it.

Noun (2)

asper (plural aspers)

  1. (historical) Any one of several small coins, circulated around the eastern Mediterranean area from the 12th to 17th centuries.
    • And for ten Aspers you shall daily finde some amongst them, that will give themselves a deepe gash with a Scimitarie, either in their armes or thighes.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 40, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

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Proper noun capitalized: Aspers

Aspers

  1. (plural) plural of Asper

Phrases with aspers

Questions about aspers

What is aspers the plural of?
Aspers is the plural of asper.
What part of speech is aspers?
Aspers is a proper noun.

Words near aspers in the dictionary

  1. asperous
  2. asperously
  3. asperparaline
  4. asperparalines
  5. asperphenamate
  6. aspers
  7. asperse
  8. aspersed
  9. asperser
  10. aspersers
  11. asperses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: aspers (page history and authors); Aspers (page history and authors); asper (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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