aspergo

== Italian == === Verb === aspergo first-person singular present indicative of aspergere === Anagrams === espargo, presago == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [asˈpɛr.ɡoː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [asˈpɛr.ɡo] === Etymology 1 === From ad- (“to, towards, at”) +‎ spargō (“strew, scatter; sprinkle; moisten”). ==== Alternative forms ==== adspergō, aspargō ==== 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 ===== aspersiō ===== Descendants ===== === Etymology 2 === From the above verb. ==== Alternative forms ==== aspargō ==== Noun ==== aspergō f (genitive asperginis); third declension A sprinkling, a besprinkling ===== Declension ===== Third-declension noun. ===== 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, 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.