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

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd

Proto-Italic *ad

Proto-Italic *ad-

Latin ad-

Latin spargō

Latin aspergō

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

Conjugation of aspergō (third conjugation)

indicative		singular				plural
indicative		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	aspergō	aspergis		aspergit	aspergimus	aspergitis		aspergunt
	imperfect	aspergēbam	aspergēbās		aspergēbat	aspergēbāmus	aspergēbātis		aspergēbant
	future	aspergam	aspergēs		asperget	aspergēmus	aspergētis		aspergent
	perfect	aspersī	aspersistī		aspersit	aspersimus	aspersistis		aspersērunt, aspersēre
	pluperfect	asperseram	asperserās		asperserat	asperserāmus	asperserātis		asperserant
	future perfect	asperserō	asperseris		asperserit	asperserimus	asperseritis		asperserint
passive	present	aspergor	aspergeris, aspergere		aspergitur	aspergimur	aspergiminī		asperguntur
	imperfect	aspergēbar	aspergēbāris, aspergēbāre		aspergēbātur	aspergēbāmur	aspergēbāminī		aspergēbantur
	future	aspergar	aspergēris, aspergēre		aspergētur	aspergēmur	aspergēminī		aspergentur
	perfect	aspersus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	aspersus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	aspersus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular				plural
subjunctive		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	aspergam	aspergās		aspergat	aspergāmus	aspergātis		aspergant
	imperfect	aspergerem	aspergerēs		aspergeret	aspergerēmus	aspergerētis		aspergerent
	perfect	asperserim	asperserīs		asperserit	asperserīmus	asperserītis		asperserint
	pluperfect	aspersissem	aspersissēs		aspersisset	aspersissēmus	aspersissētis		aspersissent
passive	present	aspergar	aspergāris, aspergāre		aspergātur	aspergāmur	aspergāminī		aspergantur
	imperfect	aspergerer	aspergerēris, aspergerēre		aspergerētur	aspergerēmur	aspergerēminī		aspergerentur
	perfect	aspersus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	aspersus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular				plural
imperative		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	—	asperge		—	—	aspergite		—
active	future	—	aspergitō		aspergitō	—	aspergitōte		asperguntō
passive	present	—	aspergere		—	—	aspergiminī		—
passive	future	—	aspergitor		aspergitor	—	—		asperguntor
non-finite forms		infinitive				participle
non-finite forms		active		passive		active		passive
present		aspergere		aspergī		aspergēns		—
future		aspersūrum esse		aspersum īrī		aspersūrus		aspergendus, aspergundus
perfect		aspersisse		aspersum esse		—		aspersus
future perfect		—		aspersum fore		—		—
perfect potential		aspersūrum fuisse		—		—		—
verbal nouns		gerund					supine
		genitive	dative		accusative	ablative	accusative		ablative
		aspergendī	aspergendō		aspergendum	aspergendō	aspersum		aspersū

Derived terms

aspersiō

Descendants

→ Catalan: aspergir
→ English: asperge, asperse, sperse
→ French: asperger
→ Galician: asperxer
→ Italian: aspergere
→ Occitan: aspergir
→ Portuguese: aspergir, asperger
→ Spanish: asperger

Etymology 2

From the above verb.

Alternative forms

aspargō

Noun

aspergō f (genitive asperginis); third declension

A sprinkling, a besprinkling

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	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, 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)