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Etymology

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Borrowed from either from German sporadisch or French sporadique, both ultimately from Ancient Greek σποραδικός (sporadikós).

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Adjective

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sporadisch (comparative sporadischer, superlative meest sporadisch or sporadischt)

  1. sporadic (rare and scattered in occurrence)

Declension

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Declension of sporadisch
uninflected sporadisch
inflected sporadische
comparative sporadischer
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial sporadisch sporadischer het sporadischt
het sporadischte
indefinite m./f. sing. sporadische sporadischere sporadischte
n. sing. sporadisch sporadischer sporadischte
plural sporadische sporadischere sporadischte
definite sporadische sporadischere sporadischte
partitive sporadisch sporadischers

Descendants

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  • Indonesian: sporadis

German

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French sporadique, assimilated to the native suffix -isch. This is in turns borrowed from Ancient Greek σποραδικός (sporadikós), cognate with Ancient Greek σπόρος (spóros) and Ancient Greek σπέρμα (spérma).[1]

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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sporadisch (strong nominative masculine singular sporadischer, comparative sporadischer, superlative am sporadischsten)

  1. sporadic
    Synonym: vereinzelt

Declension

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Adverb

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sporadisch

  1. sporadically

References

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  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “sporadisch”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN

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