Italian

Verb

spargo

1. first-person singular present indicative of spargere

Anagrams

• graspo, sporga

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)pregʰ- ‎(“to scatter, to jerk”), see also Latin spurcus, Old Irish arg ‎(“a drop”), Lithuanian sprogti ‎(“a bud, a shoot”), Swedish sprygg ‎(“active, brisk”), Old Norse freknur ‎(“speckles”), Avestan [script needed] ‎(fra-sparega, “twig, branch, something jerked off of a tree”), Sanskrit पर्जन्य ‎(parjanya, “rain god, rain”). See also Latin spernō and Ancient Greek σπείρω ‎(speírō).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈspar.ɡoː/

Verb

spargō ‎(present infinitive spargere, perfect active sparsī, supine sparsum); third conjugation

1. I scatter, strew, sprinkle

Inflection

Descendants

References

• spargo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• spargo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• SPARGO in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “spargo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to spread a rumour: rumorem spargere
    
  • to sow: serere; semen spargere