sprinter

See also: Sprinter

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈspɹɪnt.ə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɪntə(r)

Etymology 1

sprint +‎ -er

Noun

sprinter (plural sprinters)

1. One who sprints.

Translations

one who sprints

• Bulgarian: спринтьо́р m (sprintjór)
• Czech: sprinter m
• Greek: σπρίντερ (el) (sprínter)
• Romanian: sprinter (ro) m, sprinteră (ro) f
• Russian: спри́нтер (ru) (sprínter)

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: спри̏нтер m, спри̏нтерица f

  Roman: sprȉnter (sh) m, sprȉnterica (sh) f

• Walloon: sprinteu m

Etymology 2

Blend of spring +‎ winter

Noun

sprinter (uncountable)

1. Transition period between winter and spring: late winter.

Coordinate terms

• sprummer

Anagrams

• printers, reprints

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Czech

Alternative forms

• sprintér

Noun

sprinter m (feminine sprinterka)

1. sprinter

Derived terms

• sprinterka

Further reading

• sprinter in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• sprinter in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English sprinter.

Alternative forms

• sprinteur

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spʁin.tœʁ/

Noun

sprinter m (plural sprinters)

1. sprinter

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English sprint.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spʁin.te/

Verb

sprinter

1. to sprint (run quickly over a short distance)

Conjugation

Conjugation of sprinter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	sprinter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	sprintant /spʁin.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		sprinté /spʁin.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	sprinte /spʁint/	sprintes /spʁint/	sprinte /spʁint/	sprintons /spʁin.tɔ̃/	sprintez /spʁin.te/	sprintent /spʁint/
	imperfect	sprintais /spʁin.tɛ/	sprintais /spʁin.tɛ/	sprintait /spʁin.tɛ/	sprintions /spʁin.tjɔ̃/	sprintiez /spʁin.tje/	sprintaient /spʁin.tɛ/
	past historic2	sprintai /spʁin.te/	sprintas /spʁin.ta/	sprinta /spʁin.ta/	sprintâmes /spʁin.tam/	sprintâtes /spʁin.tat/	sprintèrent /spʁin.tɛʁ/
	future	sprinterai /spʁin.tə.ʁe/	sprinteras /spʁin.tə.ʁa/	sprintera /spʁin.tə.ʁa/	sprinterons /spʁin.tə.ʁɔ̃/	sprinterez /spʁin.tə.ʁe/	sprinteront /spʁin.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	sprinterais /spʁin.tə.ʁɛ/	sprinterais /spʁin.tə.ʁɛ/	sprinterait /spʁin.tə.ʁɛ/	sprinterions /spʁin.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	sprinteriez /spʁin.tə.ʁje/	sprinteraient /spʁin.tə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	sprinte /spʁint/	sprintes /spʁint/	sprinte /spʁint/	sprintions /spʁin.tjɔ̃/	sprintiez /spʁin.tje/	sprintent /spʁint/
	imperfect2	sprintasse /spʁin.tas/	sprintasses /spʁin.tas/	sprintât /spʁin.ta/	sprintassions /spʁin.ta.sjɔ̃/	sprintassiez /spʁin.ta.sje/	sprintassent /spʁin.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	sprinte /spʁint/	—	sprintons /spʁin.tɔ̃/	sprintez /spʁin.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is only usable with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “sprinter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English sprinter.

Noun

sprȉnter m (Cyrillic spelling спри̏нтер)

1. sprinter

Derived terms

• sprȉnterica

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Spanish

Noun

sprinter m or f (plural sprinters)

1. sprinter