sprazzare

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Italian

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Etymology

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Variant of spruzzare. Its literary sense is most likely due to an influence of the much more common sprazzo.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /spratˈt͡sa.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: spraz‧zà‧re

Verb

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This Italian verb needs to be reviewed and cleaned up.
The definition(s) may be wrong or misleading, and important senses may be missing. The specified auxiliary may also be wrong. The remainder of the conjugation is probably correct for -are verbs but may be wrong in some particulars for -ire verbs (especially the present participle).

sprazzàre (first-person singular present spràzzo, first-person singular past historic sprazzài, past participle sprazzàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (rare, archaic) Alternative form of spruzzare [from 13th c.]
  2. (literary):
  3. (transitive) to give off or emit in short bursts
    • 1924, Luigi Pirandello, “La liberazione del re [The Freeing of the King]”, in Novelle per un anno [Novels For a Year]:
      scoteva la cresta sanguigna, sprazzando luce da tutte le penne dai colori cangianti
      [the rooster] shook its sanguine comb, giving off light from every one of its iridescent feathers
  4. (intransitive) to appear in short bursts

Conjugation

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Further reading

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  • sprazzare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana