aspe – Italian noun declension

Italian noun forms of aspe

Noun: aspe
Gender: m Hyphenation: à‧spe
Singular maspe
Plural maspi

Sample Sentences

  • A quello annunzio entrò la Gelosia,
  • fredda come aspe, et abbracciò costui. (With that announcement, Jealousy entered, cold as an asp, and embraced him.) [1516–1532, Ludovico Ariosto, “Canto 18”, in Orlando furioso, stanza 33; republished as Santorre Debenedetti, editor, Bari: Laterza, 1928:]

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aspis, from Ancient Greek ἀσπίς (aspís). Doublet of aspide. See: Latin Nouns 'aspis', Ancient Greek Nouns 'ἀσπίς'.

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