sputare

Meaning

  1. (ambitransitive) to spit
  2. (intransitive, regional) to interrupt onself, stop talking

Frequency

C2
Hyphenated as
spu‧tà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/spuˈta.re/
Etymology

From Latin spūtāre (“to spit out”), frequentative of spuō (“to spit”).

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