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English
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Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English jasper, jaspre, from Old French jaspre, a variant of jaspe (modern French jaspe), from Latin iaspis, from Ancient Greek ἴασπις (íaspis).
Noun
[edit]jasper (countable and uncountable, plural jaspers)
- (obsolete) Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian.
- An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.
- Jasperware pottery.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]precious stone
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jasperware — see jasperware
See also
[edit]Verb
[edit]jasper (third-person singular simple present jaspers, present participle jaspering, simple past and past participle jaspered)
- (transitive) To decorate with, or as if with, jasper.
Etymology 2
[edit]From the male personal name Jasper.
Noun
[edit]jasper (plural jaspers)
- (UK, West Country, Somerset, colloquial) A wasp.
- (US, slang) A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple.
- 1957, Meredith Willson, “Ya Got Trouble”, in The Music Man:
- And list'nin to some big out-a-town jasper / Hearin' him tell about horse-race gamblin' / Not a wholesome trottin' race, no!
- 1968, Charles Portis, “True Grit”, in The Saturday Evening Post:
- "I stood there through almost an hour of it before they called Rooster Cogburn to the stand. I had guessed wrong as to which one he was, picking out a younger and slighter man with a badge on his shirt. And I was surprised when an old one-eyed jasper that was built along the lines of Grover Cleveland went up and was sworn."
- 1975, “Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)”, in Nighthawks at the Diner, performed by Tom Waits:
- Standing on the corner like a just-got-in-town jasper
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, “The Light over the Ranges”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 110:
- “That jasper,” sniggered Darby, “never pulled out his ‘dummy’ for nothing but pissing, I bet you!”
- (Appalachia) A stranger.
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]jasper
- apply different colors of paint flowing together in order to make it look like jasper stone
- Jasper la tranche d’un livre.
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of jasper (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | jasper | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | jaspant /ʒas.pɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | jaspé /ʒas.pe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | jaspe /ʒasp/ |
jaspes /ʒasp/ |
jaspe /ʒasp/ |
jaspons /ʒas.pɔ̃/ |
jaspez /ʒas.pe/ |
jaspent /ʒasp/ |
| imperfect | jaspais /ʒas.pɛ/ |
jaspais /ʒas.pɛ/ |
jaspait /ʒas.pɛ/ |
jaspions /ʒas.pjɔ̃/ |
jaspiez /ʒas.pje/ |
jaspaient /ʒas.pɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | jaspai /ʒas.pe/ |
jaspas /ʒas.pa/ |
jaspa /ʒas.pa/ |
jaspâmes /ʒas.pam/ |
jaspâtes /ʒas.pat/ |
jaspèrent /ʒas.pɛʁ/ | |
| future | jasperai /ʒas.pə.ʁe/ |
jasperas /ʒas.pə.ʁa/ |
jaspera /ʒas.pə.ʁa/ |
jasperons /ʒas.pə.ʁɔ̃/ |
jasperez /ʒas.pə.ʁe/ |
jasperont /ʒas.pə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | jasperais /ʒas.pə.ʁɛ/ |
jasperais /ʒas.pə.ʁɛ/ |
jasperait /ʒas.pə.ʁɛ/ |
jasperions /ʒas.pə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
jasperiez /ʒas.pə.ʁje/ |
jasperaient /ʒas.pə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | jaspe /ʒasp/ |
jaspes /ʒasp/ |
jaspe /ʒasp/ |
jaspions /ʒas.pjɔ̃/ |
jaspiez /ʒas.pje/ |
jaspent /ʒasp/ |
| imperfect2 | jaspasse /ʒas.pas/ |
jaspasses /ʒas.pas/ |
jaspât /ʒas.pa/ |
jaspassions /ʒas.pa.sjɔ̃/ |
jaspassiez /ʒas.pa.sje/ |
jaspassent /ʒas.pas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | jaspe /ʒasp/ |
— | jaspons /ʒas.pɔ̃/ |
jaspez /ʒas.pe/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
[edit]- “jasper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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