Asperger

From German Asperger.

• IPA^(key): /ˈæspɜː(ɹ)ɡɚ/

Asperger (plural Aspergers)

1. A surname from German.

   Hans Asperger, b. 1906

Asperger (plural Aspergers)

1. Somebody who has Asperger's syndrome.
   • 2014, Sarah Patten, What to Feed an Asperger: How to go from 3 foods to 300 with love, patience:

     Breakfast – literally to break the night-time fast – is the most important meal of the day, but it is ten times more so for an Asperger.

• presager

Borrowed from German Asperger.

• IPA^(key): /as.pɛʁ.ɡəʁ/, /as.pɛʁ.ʒəʁ/, (Québec) /as.pɛʁ.ʒɛʁ/

Asperger m or f

1. a surname from German

   Hans Asperger, b. 1906

Asperger

1. someone who has Asperger's syndrome

Asperg +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaspɛʁɡɐ/
• Hyphenation: As‧per‧ger

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Asperger m (strong, genitive Aspergers, plural Asperger)

1. resident of Asperg
2. Ellipsis of Asperger-Syndrom (“Asperger's syndrome”).

Asperger (indeclinable, no predicative form)

1. (relational) of Asperg

• Words like this are considered indeclinable adjectives, as noted by Duden, DWDS and other modern German references, but are capitalized because they originated as genitive plurals of substantives. See -er for more.

Asperger m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Aspergers or (with an article) Asperger, feminine genitive Asperger, plural Aspergers or Asperger)

1. a surname

   Hans Asperger, b. 1906

• “Asperger” in Duden online