aspergo
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Italian
Verb
aspergo
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /asˈper.ɡoː/, [äs̠ˈpɛrɡoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /asˈper.ɡo/, [äsˈpɛrɡo]
Etymology 1
From ad- (“to, towards, at”) + spargō (“strew, scatter; sprinkle; moisten”).
Alternative forms
Verb
aspergō (present infinitive aspergere, perfect active aspersī, supine aspersum); third conjugation
- to scatter or strew something or someone
- to scatter or strew a person or thing with something; splash over
- (with ablative) to spot, stain, sully, asperse; besmirch
- (of liquids) to sprinkle, spatter over
- (figuratively) to bestow, bequeath something to, set apart for
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
From the above verb.
Alternative forms
Noun
aspergō f (genitive asperginis); third declension
- A sprinkling, a besprinkling
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | aspergō | asperginēs |
Genitive | asperginis | asperginum |
Dative | asperginī | asperginibus |
Accusative | asperginem | asperginēs |
Ablative | aspergine | asperginibus |
Vocative | aspergō | asperginēs |
Descendants
- Italian: aspergine
References
- “aspergo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aspergo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- aspergo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- aspergo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to damage a person's character, bring him into bad odour: infamiam alicui inferre, aspergere
- to sully one's fair fame: vitae splendori(em) maculas(is) aspergere
- to intersperse one's speech with humorous remarks: aspergere sales orationi (Or. 26. 87)
- to damage a person's character, bring him into bad odour: infamiam alicui inferre, aspergere
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- Latin third conjugation verbs with perfect in -s- or -x-
- Latin nouns
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- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook