jasper

Significado (Inglés)

Verb

To decorate with, or as if with, jasper.

Noun

1. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian.
2. (countable, uncountable) An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.
3. (countable, uncountable) Jasperware pottery.

Noun

1. (UK, West-Country, colloquial) A wasp.
2. (US, slang) A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple.
3. (Appalachia) A stranger.

Sinónimos

amber

emerald

gem

💎

jasper ornament

red ball

jasperite

jasperoid

jaspis

sun-stone

invisible green

atrovirens

Traducións

jaspe

Jaspis

jaspe

diaspro

jaspi

jaspe

jaspis

iaspis

ίασπις

yeşim

balgam taşı

يصف

يشب

يَشْم

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/ˈd͡ʒæs.pɚ/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: jasper

Relativo a francés: jaspe

In summary

From Middle English jasper, jaspre, from Old French jaspre, a variant of jaspe (modern French jaspe), from Latin iaspis, from Ancient Greek ἴασπις (íaspis).