spargo

spargo

1. first-person singular present indicative of spargere

• graspo, sporga

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈspar.ɡoː/, [ˈs̠pärɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈspar.ɡo/, [ˈspärɡo]

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

1. to scatter, strew, sprinkle, sparkle

   ara castis vincta verbenis avet immolato spargier agno

   The altar decorated with fresh foliage yearns to be sprinkled with [blood from] a sacrificed lamb. (Horace, Odes IV, 8)

¹The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• spargo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to spread a rumour: rumorem spargere
    
  • to sow: serere; semen spargere