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5-letter words (2 found)

APSIS,ASPIS,

4-letter words (10 found)

ASPS,PAIS,PASS,PIAS,PISS,PSIS,SAIS,SAPS,SIPS,SPAS,

3-letter words (12 found)

AIS,ASP,ASS,PAS,PIA,PIS,PSI,SAI,SAP,SIP,SIS,SPA,

2-letter words (6 found)

AI,AS,IS,PA,PI,SI,

You can make 30 words from aspis according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of aspis

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Definitions and meaning of aspis

aspis

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀσπίς (aspís).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈæspɪs/

Noun

aspis (plural aspides)

  1. A type of round shield borne by ancient Greek soldiers
  2. (archaic) An asp or generic venomous snake
  3. (palynology) A prominent ring of thickened exine around a pore on a pollen grain

Coordinate terms

  • (type of shield): hoplon
  • (ring of exine): annulus

Derived terms

  • aspidate

Anagrams

  • AISPs, IASPs, apsis

Dutch

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Was the Middle Dutch word directly borrowed from Latin?”) From Middle Dutch aspis, (ultimately) from Latin aspis, from Ancient Greek ἀσπίς (aspís).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑs.pɪs/
  • Hyphenation: as‧pis

Noun

aspis m (plural aspides or aspides)

  1. asp

Derived terms

  • aspisadder
  • aspisslang
  • Egyptische aspis

French

Pronunciation

Noun

aspis m

  1. plural of aspi

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀσπίς (aspís, round shield or asp).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈas.pis/, [ˈäs̠pɪs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈas.pis/, [ˈäspis]

Noun

aspis f (genitive aspidis); third declension

  1. asp (venomous snake)
  2. viper

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

  • Catalan: àspid
  • English: aspis
  • Galician: áspide
  • Italian: aspide
  • Portuguese: áspide
  • Spanish: áspid

References

  • aspis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • aspis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • aspis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • aspis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • aspis”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • aspis”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Spanish

Noun

aspis m pl

  1. plural of aspi

Source: wiktionary.org