sporadically

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English sporadic

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālisbor.

Old French -albor.

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Latin -ālis

Old French -elbor.

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Latin -ālisbor.

Middle English -al

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

Middle English -ally

English -ally

English sporadically

From sporadic + -ally.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

sporadically (not comparable)

1. At an occasional, infrequent, or irregular frequency.
   • 2011 September 28, Jon Smith, “Valencia 1 - 1 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport‎^[1], archived from the original on 30 June 2022:

     Valencia threatened sporadically in the first half with Miguel having a decent effort deflected wide by Ashley Cole, while Jordi Alba's near-post cross was flicked into the sidenetting by Pablo Hernandez.

Synonyms

• intermittently; see also Thesaurus:discontinuously

Translations

In an occasional, infrequent, or irregular manner

• Catalan: esporàdicament (ca)
• Finnish: satunnaisesti (fi), hajanaisesti (fi), aika-ajoin, sporadisesti
• Galician: esporadicamente
• German: sporadisch (de)
• Greek: σποραδικά (el) (sporadiká)
• Hungarian: szórványosan (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sporadisk (no)

• Persian: گهگاه (fa)
• Polish: sporadycznie (pl)
• Portuguese: esporadicamente (pt), pontualmente
• Spanish: esporádicamente (es), discontinuamente, intermitentemente, a rachas, a trompicones
• Vietnamese: lẻ tẻ (vi), lác đác (vi)

Anagrams

• polyradicals