What is the meaning of Asper?

Rough or harsh; severe, stern, serious.

Rough breathing; a mark (#) indicating that part of a word is aspirated, or pronounced with h before it.

Any one of several small coins, circulated around the eastern Mediterranean area from the 12th to 17th centuries.

rough, uneven, coarse

unrefined, rude

sharp, newly minted

harsh, bitter, fierce

indefinite plural of asp

Source: wiktionary.org