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aspron

aspron is the alternative form 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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Forms of aspron

pluralasprons

Origin of aspron

Ancient Greek ἄσπρον (áspron), the neuter of ἄσπρος (áspros, “white”), from Latin asper (“rough, newly minted”)

Questions about aspron

What is aspron the alternative form of?
Aspron is the alternative form of asper.

Words near aspron in the dictionary

  1. aspread
  2. aspredinid
  3. aspredinids
  4. asprin
  5. aspro
  6. aspron
  7. asprons
  8. aspros
  9. asprout
  10. asps
  11. Aspull

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Adapted from Wiktionary: aspron (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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