sporadisch

Dutch

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Adjective

sporadisch (comparative sporadischer, superlative meest sporadisch or sporadischt)

  1. sporadic (rare and scattered in occurrence)

Inflection

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Descendants
  • → Indonesian: sporadis

German

Etymology

Borrowed from French sporadique, assimilated to the native suffix -isch. This is in turns borrowed from Ancient Greek σποραδικός (sporadikós), cognate with Ancient Greek σπόρος (spóros) and Ancient Greek σπέρμα (spérma).[1]

Pronunciation
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Adjective

sporadisch (strong nominative masculine singular sporadischer, comparative sporadischer, superlative am sporadischsten)

  1. sporadic
    Synonym: vereinzelt

Declension

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Adverb

sporadisch

  1. sporadically

References
  1. Friedrich Kluge (1989), “sporadisch”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN

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