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jasper

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English edit

 
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A jasper ball (2)

Pronunciation edit

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒæs.pɚ/; enPR: jăsʹpər
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdʒæs.pə/
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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)

  1. (obsolete) Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian.
  2. An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.
  3. Jasperware pottery.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
jasperware — see jasperware
See also edit

Verb edit

jasper (third-person singular simple present jaspers, present participle jaspering, simple past and past participle jaspered)

  1. (transitive) To decorate with, or as if with, jasper.

Etymology 2 edit

From the male personal name Jasper.

Noun edit

jasper (plural jaspers)

  1. (UK, West Country, Somerset, colloquial) A wasp.
  2. (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!”
  3. (Appalachia) A stranger.

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French edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

jasper

  1. 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 – tu – nous vous –
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:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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