spruzzare

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to spray
  2. (transitive) to sprinkle

Frequency

31k
Hyphenated as
spruz‧zà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/sprutˈt͡sa.re/
Etymology

Borrowed from Middle High German sprützen (“to squirt”), from Old High German spruzzen, spruzzjan, from Proto-West Germanic *spruttjan, from Proto-Germanic *spreutaną (“to come out, to spring forth”). Cognate to German spritzen.

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