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Latin
Etymology
From re- + spargō (“sprinkle”).
Pronunciation
Verb
respergō (present infinitive respergere, perfect active respersī, supine respersum); third conjugation (rare)
- to sprinkle or spatter over
c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE,
Catullus,
Carmina 64.180–181:
- An patris auxilium spērem? quemne ipsa relīquī,
respersum iuvenem frāternā caede secūta?- Should I hope for my father's aid? whom I myself have deserted,
having followed a youth spattered with brotherly murder?
c. 77 CE – 79 CE,
Pliny the Elder,
Naturalis Historia 14.14.88:
- Numae rēgis Postūmia lēx est: Vīnō rogum nē respargitō, quod sānxisse illum propter inopiam reī nēmō dubitet.
- The Postumian Law of king Numa is: Thou shalt not besprinkle the pyre with wine, which nobody doubts to have been sanctioned because of the scarceness of it.
Conjugation
References
- “respergo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “respergo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- respergo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.