spiritus asper

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.75 in modern English

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"h, as an aspirate, is very frequent in Chinese ; it is generally a stronger aspirate than in English : in the dialects of the south it is often changed into f, in the north into s, or sh. To mark an aspirate after a consonant, we use the Greek spiritus asper in preference to h."

Unadapted borrowing from Latin spīritus asper, from Ancient Greek δασὺ πνεῦμα (dasù pneûma).

spiritus aspers (plural)

rough breathing

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