propagare (PROP. and IMPROP., of propagating a race): disseminare (e.g., a report, rumorem; an evil, malum). The disease propagates itself by contagion, contactu morbus in alios vulgatur (Liv., 4, 30). To propagate a report, rumorem or famam differre; rumorem spargere, dispergere, divulgare, etc.: to be propagated, se diffundere, diffundi (to spread itself; PROP. and figuratively, of rumors, errors, etc.); late serpere (of rumors, etc.).