English
jaspé
Jaspé comes from French jasper ‘to colour motley, so as to imitate jasper’, and goes back to Ancient Greek ἴασπις.
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἴασπιςíaspis‘jasper’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiaspis‘jasper, a precious stone’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentjaspe‘jasper’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentjasper‘to colour motley, so as to imitate jasper’
- Englishearliest quotation 1939jaspé
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἴασπιςíaspis‘jasper’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiaspis‘jasper, a precious stone’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentjaspe‘jasper’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentjasper‘to colour motley, so as to imitate jasper’
- Englishearliest quotation 1939jaspé
Earliest quotation: 1939, Philip George Chadwick, The Death Guard: “He, too, like the advancing Guard and the ground…”
Linked words
through Latin iaspis ‘jasper, a precious stone’
Today it means
adj Veined or clouded like imitation jasper.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Ancient Greek ἴασπις / jaspé