sprite
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See also: Sprite
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English sprite, spryt, spreyte, from Old French esprit (“spirit”), from Latin spiritus. Doublet of spirit, spiritus, spirytus, spright, and esprit.
(computer graphics): First used by Danny Hillis at Texas Instruments in the late 1970s.
(meteorology): An acronym for Stratospheric Perturbations Resulting from Intense Thunderstorm Electrification.
Pronunciation
Noun
sprite (plural sprites)
- (mythology) Any of various supernatural beings, loosely defined:
- 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.
- An apparition; a ghost.
- An elf, fairy, or goblin; one with a small humanlike physical body.
- A spirit; a soul; a shade.
- (computer graphics) A two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene.
- (meteorology) A large electrical discharge that occurs high above the cumulonimbus cloud of an active thunderstorm, which appears as a luminous red or orange flash.
- The green woodpecker, or yaffle (Picus viridis).
- (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)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → Japanese: スプライト (supuraito)
- → Russian: спрайт (sprajt)
Translations
a spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition
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an elf; a fairy; a goblin
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the green woodpecker, or yaffle — see green woodpecker
a two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene
electrical discharges that occur high above the cumulonimbus cloud of an active thunderstorm
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Verb
sprite (third-person singular simple present sprites, present participle spriting, simple past and past participle sprited)
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Pronunciation
Noun
sprite
Declension
| Inflection of sprite (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
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| nominative | sprite | spritet | |
| genitive | spriten | spritejen | |
| partitive | spriteä | spritejä | |
| illative | spriteen | spriteihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | sprite | spritet | |
| accusative | nom. | sprite | spritet |
| gen. | spriten | ||
| genitive | spriten | spritejen spritein rare | |
| partitive | spriteä | spritejä | |
| inessive | spritessä | spriteissä | |
| elative | spritestä | spriteistä | |
| illative | spriteen | spriteihin | |
| adessive | spritellä | spriteillä | |
| ablative | spriteltä | spriteiltä | |
| allative | spritelle | spriteille | |
| essive | spritenä | spriteinä | |
| translative | spriteksi | spriteiksi | |
| abessive | spritettä | spriteittä | |
| instructive | — | spritein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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