Noun: sprite
| Singular | sprite |
| Plural | sprites |
Sample Sentences
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He who torments the chafer's sprite
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Weaves a bower in endless night. [1803, William Blake, Auguries of Innocence:]
Nouns inflected like sprite
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English sprite, spryt, spreyte, from Old French esprit (“spirit”), from Latin spīritus. Doublet of spirit, spiritus, spirytus, spright, and esprit.
2. (computer graphics): First used by Danny Hillis at Texas Instruments in the late 1970s.
3. (meteorology): An acronym for Stratospheric Perturbations Resulting from Intense Thunderstorm Electrification. See: Middle English Nouns '
sprite', Latin Nouns '
spīritus'.
Verbs referencing "sprite"
Finnish Nouns
sprite, Swedish Nouns
sprit, Dutch Nouns
spruit, Russian Nouns
спрайт.