English → Latin
“sprinkle” in Latin
spargōto scatter, strew, sprinkle, sparkle; to throw here and there, cast, hurl, throw aboutaspergōto scatter or strew something or someone; to scatter or strew a person or thing with something; splash over; to spot, stmaculōsusspotted, speckled, dappled, mottled, variegated; blotted, stained, defiled
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
sprinkle
To scatter water by drops, spargere: aspergere (e.g., water on the ground). To sprinkle on anything, aspergere aliquid alicui rei: conspergere aliquid aliqua re: to sprinkle the ground before the door, spargere or conspergere humum (ante aedes). To sprinkle the roads in order to lay the dust, vias conspergere propter pulverem.
To spot, maculis variare (☞ not maculare): sprinkled, maculosus: coloris maculosi. Sprinkled with while, maculis albis: sprinkled with black, maculis nigris: sprinkled with gold, ex aureolo varius; aureis maculis sparsus: sprinkled with blue and yellow, ex caeruleo fulvoque varius. ☞ Sparsus alone can never mean “sprinkled. “
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for sprinkle?
- The usual Latin words for “sprinkle” are spargō, aspergō, maculōsus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.