esparso

Italian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /esˈpar.so/
Rhymes: -arso
Hyphenation: e‧spàr‧so

Participle

esparso (feminine esparsa, masculine plural esparsi, feminine plural esparse)

past participle of espargere

Anagrams

asperso, oprasse, passero, passerò, raspose, sposare, sposerà

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sparsus.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /isˈpaʁ.su/ [isˈpah.su], /esˈpaʁ.su/ [esˈpah.su]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /isˈpaɾ.su/, /esˈpaɾ.su/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /iʃˈpaʁ.su/ [iʃˈpaχ.su], /eʃˈpaʁ.su/ [eʃˈpaχ.su]
- (Caipira) IPA^(key): /isˈpaɻ.su/, /esˈpaɻ.su/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /esˈpaʁ.so/ [esˈpah.so]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /(i)ʃˈpaɾ.su/

Hyphenation: es‧par‧so

Adjective

esparso (feminine esparsa, masculine plural esparsos, feminine plural esparsas)

sparse (whose elements are far from each other)

Further reading

“esparso”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
“esparso”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026