disperse

Etymology

From French disperser, from Latin dispersus, past participle of dispergere (“to scatter abroad, disperse”), from dis- (“apart”) + spargere (“to scatter”); see sparse.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈspɜːs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /dɪˈspɜ˞s/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)s

Verb

disperse (third-person singular simple present disperses, present participle dispersing, simple past and past participle dispersed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions

   The Jews are dispersed among all nations.

   • Bible, Proverbs xv. 7

     The lips of the wise disperse knowledge.

   • Cowper

     Two lions, in the still, dark night, / A herd of beeves disperse.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate
3. (transitive, intransitive) To disseminate
4. (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light etc. according to wavelength; to refract
5. (transitive, intransitive) To distribute throughout

Adjective

disperse (comparative more disperse, superlative most disperse)

1. Scattered or spread out.
   • 1998, James-Yves Roger, Technologies for the Information Society: Developments and Opportunities:

     Australia itself is a very wide and very disperse country, where the distance problems significantly affect also the "internal" customer-supplier chains.

   • 2014, Didier J. Dubois, Readings in Fuzzy Sets for Intelligent Systems, page 85:

     In particular, a very crisp quantifier such as “for all,” “there exists,” “at least 50 percent” tend to have less disperse weighting vectors while fuzzier quantifiers such as many tend to have a more disperse weighting vector.

Anagrams

• Perseids, despiser, perseids, presides

Verb

disperse

1. first-person singular present indicative of disperser
2. third-person singular present indicative of disperser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of disperser
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of disperser
5. second-person singular imperative of disperser

Anagrams

• perdisse, prédises, prédisse, présides

Adjective

disperse

1. inflected form of dispers

Adjective

disperse

1. feminine plural of disperso

Noun

disperse f pl

1. plural of dispersa

Verb

disperse

1. third-person singular past historic of disperdere
2. third-person singular past historic of dispergere

disperse f

1. Plural of disperso

Anagrams

• depressi
• perdessi
• predisse

Participle

disperse

1. vocative masculine singular of dispersus

References

• disperse in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• disperse in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• disperse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Verb

disperse

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of dispersar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of dispersar
3. first-person singular imperative of dispersar
4. third-person singular imperative of dispersar

Verb

disperse

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of dispersar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of dispersar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of dispersar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of dispersar.