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English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin sporadicus (whence also French sporadique, Italian sporadico, Spanish esporádico), from Ancient Greek σποραδικός (sporadikós), from σποράς (sporás, “scattered, dispersed”), from σπορά (sporá), σπόρος (spóros, “a sowing ”).[1]
Pronunciation
Adjective
sporadic (comparative more sporadic, superlative most sporadic)
- (archaic) (of diseases) occurring in isolated instances; not epidemic.
- Rare and scattered in occurrence.
2015 March 12, Daniel Taylor, “Chelsea out of Champions League after Thiago Silva sends 10-man PSG through on away goals”, in The Guardian (London):It was a stodgy, weary display from Mourinho’s team with only sporadic moments when they threatened Salvatore Sirigu’s goal and their manager seemed bewildered afterwards when he tried to explain what had gone wrong.
- Exhibiting random behavior; patternless.
- (mathematics) Not belonging to any infinite family; an exception to an otherwise orderly classification.
Derived terms
Translations
rare and scattered in occurrence
- Asturian: esporádicu
- Belarusian: спарады́чны (sparadýčny)
- Bengali: বিক্ষিপ্ত (bn) (bikkhipto)
- Bulgarian: единичен (bg) (ediničen), случаен (bg) (slučaen)
- Catalan: esporàdic
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 零星 (zh) (língxīng), 哩哩啦啦 (zh) (līlīlālā), 偶爾發生的／偶尔发生的 (ǒu'ěr fāshēng de), 無常／无常 (zh) (wúcháng), 散亂／散乱 (zh) (sànluàn)
- Czech: ojedinělý (cs), sporadický
- Danish: sporadisk
- Dutch: sporadisch (nl)
- Finnish: harvinainen (fi), satunnainen (fi), sporadinen (fi)
- French: sporadique (fr)
- Galician: esporádico
- German: sporadisch (de)
- Indonesian: sporadis (id)
- Italian: sporadico (it)
- Japanese: 散発的な (さんぱつてきな, sanpatsuteki na)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sporadisk (no)
- Polish: sporadyczny (pl)
- Portuguese: esporádico (pt), pontual (pt)
- Russian: споради́ческий (ru) (sporadíčeskij), едини́чный (ru) (jediníčnyj), случа́йный (ru) (slučájnyj)
- Serbo-Croatian: спорадичан, sporadičan (sh)
- Spanish: esporádico (es)
- Swedish: sporadisk (sv)
- Tagalog: manaka-naka
- Turkish: ara sıra (tr), tek tük (tr)
- Ukrainian: споради́чний (uk) (sporadýčnyj)
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exhibiting random behaviour
References
- ^ The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, p. 2978.
Anagrams
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French sporadique.
Adjective
sporadic m or n (feminine singular sporadică, masculine plural sporadici, feminine and neuter plural sporadice)
- sporadic
Declension