asperity

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• Received-Pronunciation: /əˈspɛɹɪti/
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• General-American: /əˈspɛɹɪti/
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• General-American: [-ɾi]
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• rhymes with -ɛɹɪti
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• CMU ARPABET: AH0 S P EH1 R IH0 T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English asprete, asperite, from Old French aspreté (modern French âpreté), from Latin asperitātem, the accusative singular of asperitās (“roughness, unevenness; fierceness, severity; harshness, sharpness; acidity, tartness”), from asper (“coarse, rough, uneven; bitter, fierce harsh; rude, unrefined; etc.”) (probably from Proto-Indo-European *h2esp- (“to cut”)) + -itās (a variant of -tās (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns indicating a state of being)). The spelling of the English word is influenced directly by Latin asperitātem. Doublet of asperitas.

35 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: aspror — quality of having a rough or uneven surface (cognates) — see also roughness, unevenness
• Catalan: aspresa — quality of having a rough or uneven surface (cognates) — see also roughness, unevenness
• French: aspérité — quality of having a rough or uneven surface (cognates) — see also roughness, unevenness
• Middle French: aspreté — quality of having a rough or uneven surface (cognates) — see also roughness, unevenness
• Galician: aspereza — quality of having a rough or uneven surface (cognates) — see also roughness, unevenness
• Italian: asprezza — quality of having a rough or uneven surface (cognates) — see also roughness, unevenness
• Italian: asperità — quality of having a rough or uneven surface (cognates) — see also roughness, unevenness
• Italian: asprità — quality of having a rough or uneven surface (cognates) — see also roughness, unevenness
• Portuguese: aspereza — quality of having a rough or uneven surface (cognates) — see also roughness, unevenness
• Portuguese: asperidade — quality of having a rough or uneven surface (cognates) — see also roughness, unevenness
• Romanian: asperitate — quality of having a rough or uneven surface (cognates) — see also roughness, unevenness
• Romanian: asprime — quality of having a rough or uneven surface (cognates) — see also roughness, unevenness
• Spanish: aspereza — quality of having a rough or uneven surface (cognates) — see also roughness, unevenness
• Bulgarian: разлом (razlom) — section of a fault line with high friction
• Finnish: kitkainen kohta — section of a fault line with high friction
• Italian: asprezza — quality of being difficult or unpleasant to experience (cognates) — see also harshness, rigour, severity
• Romanian: asperitate — quality of being difficult or unpleasant to experience (cognates) — see also harshness, rigour, severity
• French: aspérité — thing that is harsh and difficult to endure (cognates) — see also difficulty, hardship
• Ido: aspereso — thing that is harsh and difficult to endure (cognates) — see also difficulty, hardship
• Italian: asperità — thing that is harsh and difficult to endure (cognates) — see also difficulty, hardship
• Italian: asprità — thing that is harsh and difficult to endure (cognates) — see also difficulty, hardship
• Arabic: حِدَّة (ḥidda) — quality of being harsh or severe in the way one behaves or speaks toward another person — see also harshness, severity
• Aramaic: ܥܪܡܐ — quality of being harsh or severe in the way one behaves or speaks toward another person — see also harshness, severity
• Bulgarian: рязкост (rjazkost) — quality of being harsh or severe in the way one behaves or speaks toward another person — see also harshness, severity
• Dutch: hardvochtigheid — quality of being harsh or severe in the way one behaves or speaks toward another person — see also harshness, severity
• Finnish: ankaruus — quality of being harsh or severe in the way one behaves or speaks toward another person — see also harshness, severity
• Irish: gairge — quality of being harsh or severe in the way one behaves or speaks toward another person — see also harshness, severity
• Portuguese: aspereza — quality of being harsh or severe in the way one behaves or speaks toward another person — see also harshness, severity
• Portuguese: asperidade — quality of being harsh or severe in the way one behaves or speaks toward another person — see also harshness, severity
• Romanian: asperitate — quality of being harsh or severe in the way one behaves or speaks toward another person — see also harshness, severity
• Romanian: asprime — quality of being harsh or severe in the way one behaves or speaks toward another person — see also harshness, severity
• Russian: суро́вость (suróvostʹ) — quality of being harsh or severe in the way one behaves or speaks toward another person — see also harshness, severity
• Russian: жёсткость (žóstkostʹ) — quality of being harsh or severe in the way one behaves or speaks toward another person — see also harshness, severity
• Spanish: aspereza — quality of being harsh or severe in the way one behaves or speaks toward another person — see also harshness, severity
• Spanish: asperidad — quality of being harsh or severe in the way one behaves or speaks toward another person — see also harshness, severity