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sprite
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)
- (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.
- 1803, William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
- An apparition; ghost
- (mythology) An elf; a fairy; a goblin.
- (computer graphics) A two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene.
- An electrical discharge that occurs high above the cumulonimbus cloud of an active thunderstorm.
- The green woodpecker, or yaffle.
- (entomology) Any of various African damselflies of the genus Pseudagrion (of which, Australian species are named riverdamsels).
- A spayed female ferret.
- (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
- (computer graphics) sprite
Declension
Anagrams
- ripset
sprite From the web:
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- sprite cranberry
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- what's sprite cranberry
- what's sprite made out of
surite
English
Etymology
This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
? + -ite
Noun
surite
- (mineralogy) A monoclinic mineral containing aluminum, carbon, copper, fluorine, hydrogen, iron, lead, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.
References
- David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Surite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
Anagrams
- Suiter, Trieus, Uresti, Utsire, suiter, urites
surite From the web:
- what suite
- what suite means
- what suite life character are you
- what suits me
- what suits you
- what suites are at aulani resort
- what suite was used in the hangover
- what suite is in the hangover
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