spargo

Verb

spargo

1. first-person singular present indicative of spargere

Anagrams

• graspo, sporga

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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

1. to scatter, strew, sprinkle, sparkle

   Synonym: cōnspergō

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.512:

     Sparserat et laticēs simulātōs fontis Avernī, [...].

     [The priestess] also had sprinkled the supposed waters of Avernus’ spring, [...].

   • 23 BCE – 13 BCE, Horace, Odes IV.11:

     [...] ara castis vincta verbenis avet immolato spargier agno; [...]

     [...] the altar decorated with fresh foliage yearns to be sprinkled with [blood from] a sacrificed lamb; [...]

2. to throw here and there, cast, hurl, throw about

   Synonyms: coniciō, iniciō, adiciō, obiciō, abiciō, permittō, iaciō, trāiciō, iaculor, ēmittō, mittō, lībrō

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 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