noun
rēspersĭo
Meaning
- a sprinkling over
rēspersĭo, ōnis, f. id.,
I. a sprinkling over, besprinkling (Ciceron.):
pigmentorum, Cic. Div. 2, 21, 48: ne sumptuosa respersio, a sprinkling of the funeral pile with wine, id. Leg. 2, 24, 60; v. 1. respergo, I.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
respersiō ōnis, f
re-+SPARC-, a sprinkling over, besprinkling : pigmentorum: sumptuosa (of the funeral pile).