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nounEtymology Calque of Latin spīritus asper, from Ancient Greek δασὺ πνεῦμα (dasù pneûma).
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Sciences Aspiration on a vowel or semivowel in Ancient Greek.
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Communications, Journalism, Literature, Media, Orthography, Publishing, Writing A diacritic (῾ (h)/◌̔) in Ancient, Medieval and Modern Greek used to indicate this aspiration (or its historical presence), e.g. ἁ, ῥ.