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English

Etymology 1

Noun

sarse (plural sarses)

1. Alternative form of searce

Verb

sarse (third-person singular simple present sarses, present participle sarsing, simple past and past participle sarsed)

1. Alternative form of searce

Etymology 2

Noun

sarse (countable and uncountable, plural sarses)

1. Pronunciation spelling of sauce.

Verb

sarse (third-person singular simple present sarses, present participle sarsing, simple past and past participle sarsed)

1. Pronunciation spelling of sauce.

Anagrams

• SASER, Sears, arses, rases, rasse, sears

Middle English

Alternative forms

• sarce, sarss, saarce, scarce, sars, sarche

Etymology

From Old French saas (with addition of an intrusive -r-), from Late Latin *saet?ceus (pannus) (“(cloth) made of bristles”), from Latin saeta (“bristle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sars/, /sa?rs/

Noun

sarse

1. sieve, searce

Derived terms

• sarsen

Descendants

• English: searce, sarse
• Scots: search

References

• “s?rce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sparsus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sp??s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /sp???s/

Adjective

sparse (comparative sparser, superlative sparsest)

1. Having widely spaced intervals.
2. Not dense; meager; scanty
3. (mathematics) Having few nonzero elements

Synonyms

• (having widely spaced intervals): spread out, thin; see also Thesaurus:diffuse
• (meager): insufficient, paltry; see also Thesaurus:inadequate

Derived terms

• sparsen
• sparsification
• sparsity

Related terms

• sparge

Translations

See also

• thin out

Verb

sparse (third-person singular simple present sparses, present participle sparsing, simple past and past participle sparsed)

1. (obsolete) To disperse, to scatter.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:disperse

Anagrams

• Arpses, Aspers, Spears, Speras, aspers, parses, passer, prases, presas, repass, sarpes, spares, spaser, spears

Italian

Verb

sparse

1. third-person singular past historic of spargere
2. third-person singular past historic of sparere

sparse f

1. feminine plural of sparso

Anagrams

• pressa, spersa

Latin

Participle

sparse

1. vocative masculine singular of sparsus

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sparse]

Verb

sparse

1. third-person singular simple perfect indicative of sparge