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Definition of Asper
1. Noun. 20 aspers equal 1 kurus in Turkey.
Definition of Asper
1. a. Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce.
2. n. The rough breathing; a mark (&asper;) placed over an initial vowel sound or over ρ to show that it is aspirated, that is, pronounced with h before it; thus
3. n. A Turkish money of account (formerly a coin), of little value; the 120th part of a piaster.
Definition of Asper
1. Adjective. Rough or harsh; severe, stern, serious. ¹
2. Noun. (historic) Any one of several small coins, circulated around the eastern Mediterranean area from the 12th to 17th centuries. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Asper
1. a Turkish money of account [n -S]
Medical Definition of Asper
1. The rough breathing; a mark (#) placed over an initial vowel sound or over to show that it is aspirated, that is, pronounced with h before it; thus hws, pronounced hs, hrj'twr, pronounced hra'tr. Origin: L. Spiritus asper rough breathing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Asper
Literary usage of Asper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Introduction to the Study of the Greek Dialects: Grammar, Selected by Carl Darling Buck (1910)
"The spiritus asper generally represents an original cr (59) or t (56), but in
some words is of secondary, and sometimes obscure, origin, ..."
2. Principles of Greek Etymology by Georg Curtius (1886)
"120) shows that dmp and 4r4 also get their spiritus lenis from an original spiritus
asper, dr€p corresponding to the Germ. sonder (‘separate ‘), d'rdp to ..."
3. A Greek Grammar for the Use of High Schools and Universities by Philipp Buttmann, Edward Robinson (1833)
"The Spiritus asper is our A. The lenis stands where in other languages a word
... The Spiritus asper stands also over every p at the beginning of a word or ..."
4. History of Utah: Comprising Preliminary Chapters on the Previous History of by Orson Ferguson Whitney (1904)
"ELIAS asper 'HE late Bishop asper, of Echo, was the son of George and Salome F.
asper. He was born March 7, 1820. in York County, Pennsylvania. ..."
5. The Jonson Allusion-Book: A Collection of Allusions to Ben Jonson from 1597-1700 by Jesse Franklin Bradley, Joseph Quincy Adams (1922)
"... one suite to thy backe: you must be call'd asper, and Criticus, and Horace,
... the stile a the big Turkes—asper, Criticus, Quintus Horatius Flaccus. ..."
6. The anatomy of melancholy, by Democritus iunior by Robert Burton (1838)
"... asper- IUT, so love triumphs, contemns, insults, over death itself. Thirteen •per
yong men lost their lives for that fair ..."
7. Teuffels̓ History of Roman Literature by Wilhelm Sigismund Teuffel (1892)
"... asper de PRISC. GL. 3, 489, 36 ; cf. ib. 2, 536, 6. ... On the works under
the name of asper sse § 482, 3, On his period (beginning of ..."
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