sprazzare

Italian

Etymology

Variant of spruzzare. Its literary sense is most likely due to an influence of the much more common sprazzo.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /spratˈt͡sa.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: spraz‧zà‧re

Verb

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

  1. (rare, archaic) Alternative form of spruzzare [from 13th c.]
  2. (literary):
  3. (transitive) to give off or emit in short bursts
    • 1924, Luigi Pirandello, “La liberazione del re [The Freeing of the King]”, in Novelle per un anno [Novels For a Year]:
      scoteva la cresta sanguigna, sprazzando luce da tutte le penne dai colori cangianti
      [the rooster] shook its sanguine comb, giving off light from every one of its iridescent feathers
  4. (intransitive) to appear in short bursts

Conjugation

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

Further reading
  • sprazzare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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