sperse

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English

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Etymology

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

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Verb

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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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Verb

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sperse

  1. third-person singular past historic of spergere

Etymology 2

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Participle

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sperse f pl

  1. feminine plural of sperso

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