jasper
See also: Jasper
English
A jasper ball (2)
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒæs.pɚ/; enPR: jăsʹpər
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdʒæs.pə/
Audio (US) (file)
Etymology 1
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
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
Derived terms
- Jasper National Park
- jasper opal
- jasperated
- jasperite
- jasperize
- jasperoid
- jasperous
- jasperware
- jaspery
- jaspidean
- lavender jasper
- xyloid jasper
Translations
precious stone
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jasperware — see jasperware
See also
- jasperware
Verb
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
From the male personal name Jasper.
Noun
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", 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!
- 1975, Tom Waits, ‘Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)’:
- Standing on the corner like a just-got-in-town jasper.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 122:
- “That jasper,” sniggered Darby, “never pulled out his ‘dummy’ for nothing but pissing, I bet you!”
- 1968, Charles Portis, True Grit, 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."
- 1957, Meredith Willson, "Ya Got Trouble", The Music Man:
Anagrams
- japers
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʒas.pe/
Audio (file)
Verb
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
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
- “jasper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.