SPRINKLE Copy link • SPRINKLETo scatter water by drops, spargere: aspergere (e.g., water on the ground). To sprinkle on anything, aspergere aliquid alicui rei: conspergere aliquid aliqua re: to sprinkle the ground before the door, spargere or conspergere humum (ante aedes). To sprinkle the roads in order to lay the dust, vias conspergere propter pulverem. To spot, maculis variare (☞ not maculare): sprinkled, maculosus: coloris maculosi. Sprinkled with while, maculis albis: sprinkled with black, maculis nigris: sprinkled with gold, ex aureolo varius; aureis maculis sparsus: sprinkled with blue and yellow, ex caeruleo fulvoque varius. ☞ Sparsus alone can never mean “sprinkled. “