sporadic

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From Medieval Latin sporadicus (whence also French sporadique, Italian sporadico, Spanish esporádico), from Ancient Greek σποραδικός (sporadikós), from σποράς (sporás, “scattered, dispersed”), from σπορά (sporá), σπόρος (spóros, “a sowing [of seed]”).

52 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Asturian: esporádicu — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Belarusian: спарады́чны (sparadýčny) — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Bengali: বিক্ষিপ্ত (bikkhipto) — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Bulgarian: единичен (ediničen) — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Bulgarian: случаен (slučaen) — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Catalan: esporàdic — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Chinese Mandarin: 零星 (língxīng) — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Chinese Mandarin: 哩哩啦啦 (līlīlālā) — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Chinese Mandarin: 偶爾發生的 /偶尔发生的 (ǒu'ěr fāshēng de) — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Chinese Mandarin: 無常 /无常 (wúcháng) — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Chinese Mandarin: 散亂 /散乱 (sànluàn) — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Czech: ojedinělý — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Czech: sporadický — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Danish: sporadisk — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Dutch: sporadisch — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Finnish: harvinainen — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Finnish: satunnainen — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Finnish: sporadinen — rare and scattered in occurrence
• French: sporadique — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Galician: esporádico — rare and scattered in occurrence
• German: sporadisch — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Greek: σποραδικός (sporadikós) — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Ancient Greek: σπορᾰδῐκός (sporădĭkós) — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Indonesian: sporadis — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Italian: sporadico — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Japanese: 散発的な (sanpatsuteki na) — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Latin: sporadicus — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Norwegian Bokmål: sporadisk — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Polish: sporadyczny — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Portuguese: esporádico — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Portuguese: pontual — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Romanian: sporadic — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Russian: споради́ческий (sporadíčeskij) — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Russian: едини́чный (jediníčnyj) — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Russian: случа́йный (slučájnyj) — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Serbo-Croatian: спорадичан — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Serbo-Croatian: sporadičan — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Spanish: esporádico — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Swedish: sporadisk — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Tagalog: manaka-naka — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Turkish: ara sıra — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Turkish: tek tük — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Ukrainian: споради́чний (sporadýčnyj) — rare and scattered in occurrence
• Bulgarian: спорадичен (sporadičen) — exhibiting random behaviour
• Catalan: esporàdic — exhibiting random behaviour
• Finnish: satunnainen — exhibiting random behaviour
• Finnish: hajanainen — exhibiting random behaviour
• Finnish: sporadinen — exhibiting random behaviour
• Russian: спорадический (sporadičeskij) — exhibiting random behaviour
• Spanish: esporádico — exhibiting random behaviour
• Spanish: guadianesco — exhibiting random behaviour
• Ukrainian: споради́чний (sporadýčnyj) — exhibiting random behaviour