esparcir
Spanish
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) to scatter, disperse; to sprinkle; to fire out
- (transitive) to entertain, divert
- (transitive) to circulate, spread news
Etymology
Inherited from Latin spargere (scatter, strew, sprinkle, spread) derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pregʰ- (jerk, scatter).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)pregʰ-
Gloss
jerk, scatter
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- nonsparse English
- sparge English
- spargefaction English
- sparger English
- sparse English
- sparsely English
- sparsen English
- sparseness English
- sparsification English
- sparsify English
- sparsity English
- ultrasparse English
- unsparse English
- cōnspergō, conspargere Latin
- spargere Latin
- spargo Latin
- spargō Latin
- sparsus Latin
- cospargere Italian
- cospargimento Italian
- spargere Italian
- esparcido Spanish, Castilian
- *(s)pregʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- पर्जन्य Sanskrit
- espardre Old French
- esparexer Galician
- sparge Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- espargier Middle French
- esparger Old Portuguese
- espa Walloon