different between sprite vs ouphe

English

Alternative forms

• spright (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English sprite, spryt, spreyte, from Old French esprit (“spirit”), from Latin spiritus. Doublet of spirit.

(computer graphics): First used by Danny Hillis at Texas Instruments in the late 1970s.

Pronunciation

• enPR: spr?t, IPA^(key): /sp?a?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Noun

sprite (plural sprites)

1. (mythology) A spirit; a soul; a shade
   • 1803, William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

     He who torments the chafer's sprite

     Weaves a bower in endless night.

2. An apparition; ghost
3. (mythology) An elf; a fairy; a goblin.
4. (computer graphics) A two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene.
5. An electrical discharge that occurs high above the cumulonimbus cloud of an active thunderstorm.
6. The green woodpecker, or yaffle.
7. (entomology) Any of various African damselflies of the genus Pseudagrion (of which, Australian species are named riverdamsels).
8. A spayed female ferret.
9. (obsolete) Alternative form of spright (“frame of mind, disposition”)

Synonyms

• (supernatural creature): See goblin (hostile)

Related terms

• sprightly

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????? (supuraito)

Translations

Anagrams

• Pitres, Presti, Priest, esprit, pierst, priest, re-tips, respit, retips, ripest, sitrep, stripe, tripes

Finnish

Etymology

From English sprite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sprite/, [?s?prit?e?]
• IPA^(key): /?spr?i?t?i/, [?s?pr?i?t??i] (approximating English pronunciation; inflects like risti)
• Rhymes: -ite
• Syllabification: spri?te

Noun

sprite

1. (computer graphics) sprite

Declension

Anagrams

• ripset

English

Alternative forms

• aulf

Etymology

From the same origin as oaf (“elf child”).

Noun

ouphe (plural ouphes)

1. (obsolete) A small, often mischievous sprite; a fairy; a goblin; an elf.
   • 1602, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 5, Scene 4, 1768, John Baskerville, Alexander Pope (editors), The Works of Shakespear, Volume 1, page 301,

     Strew good luck, ouphes, on every ?acred room, / That it may ?tand 'till the perpetual Doom, / In ?tate as whol?om, as in ?tate 'tis fit; / Worthy the owner, as the owner it.

   • 1835, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay, 1899, The Culprit Fa[y], page 4,

     For an Ouphe has broken his vestal vow; / He has loved an earthly maid, / And left for her his woodly shade;

   • 1835, Review of The Culprit Fay and Other Poems by Joseph Rodman Drake and Alnwick Castle by Fitz-Greene Halleck, Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 2, page 329,

     The plot is as follows. An Ouphe, one of the race of Fairies, has "broken his vestal vow," […] in short, he has broken Fairy-law in becoming enamored of a mortal.