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aspro (plural aspros)

1. (Australia, informal) associate professor

• Paros, Poras, praos, proas, psora, rapos, rapso, roaps, sapor, sapro-

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aspro m sg (feminine singular aspra, masculine plural aspros, feminine plural aspras)

1. rough

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “aspro”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

From Latin asperum (“rough”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂esp- (“to cut”). Compare Spanish and Portuguese áspero (“rough”), French âpre, Romanian aspru.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.spro/
• Rhymes: -aspro
• Hyphenation: à‧spro

aspro (feminine aspra, masculine plural aspri, feminine plural aspre, superlative asprissimo, diminutive asprétto or asprìno)

1. sharp, tart (taste)
2. sour, pungent, bitter
3. rugged (terrain)
4. harsh, severe
5. strict
6. difficult

• aspramente
• asprezza
• asprigno
• inasprire

• asperità
• asperrimo

• aspro¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• aspro² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• parso, prosa, raspo, raspò, sapro-, saprò, sopra, sopra-, sparo, sparò, spora

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄσπρον (áspron).

aspro m (plural aspros)

1. a particular Turkish currency; the asper

• “aspro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014