The story
- Latin · derived fromasper“rough, newly minted”
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἄσπρον
- English todayaspron
Ancient Greek ἄσπρον (áspron), the neuter of ἄσπρος (áspros, “white”), from Latin asper (“rough, newly minted”)
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.