sperse

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English

Etymology

Aphetic form of asperse, from Latin aspersus, past participle of aspergere.

Pronunciation

Verb

sperse (third-person singular simple present sperses, present participle spersing, simple past and past participle spersed)

  1. (obsolete) To disperse.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sperse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈspɛr.se/
  • Rhymes: -ɛrse
  • Hyphenation: spèr‧se

Etymology 1

Verb

sperse

  1. third-person singular past historic of spergere

Etymology 2

Participle

sperse f pl

  1. feminine plural of sperso

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