spread
spread
subs.
Increase: P. ἐπίδοσις, ἡ.
subs.
Increase: P. ἐπίδοσις, ἡ.
spread
v. trans.
Stretch out: P. and V. τείνειν, ἐκτείνειν.
Strew: P. and V. στορεννύναι, Ar. and V. στορνύναι.
Circulate (rumours, etc.): P. and V. διαγγέλλειν, διᾰσπείρειν, Ar. and V. σπείρειν, P. κατασκεδαννύναι.
Spread reports (absol.): P. διαθροεῖν, λογοποιεῖν.
Diffuse: P. and V. διασπείρειν, διᾰδῐδόναι, V. ἐνδᾰτεῖσθαι, Ar. and V. σπείρειν.
Spread (a table, etc.): use Ar. and P. πᾰρᾰτῐθέναι.
Let a rich table be spread for you: V. σοὶ πλουσία τράπεζα κείσθω (Soph. El. 361).
Spread out: Ar. διᾰπεταννύναι.
Stretch out: P. and V. τείνειν, ἐκτείνειν.
Spread out the hands: V. ἀ̆ναπτύσσειν χέρας.
Lengthen: P. and V. τείνειν, ἐκτείνειν, μηκύ̄νειν ; see prolong.
Spread over: Ar. and P. κᾰτᾰπεταννύ̆ναι (τινά τινι), V. ὑ̆περτείνειν (τί τινος).
Spread under: P. and V. ὑ̆ποστορεννύναι (Xen., also Ar.).
V. intrans. Extend: P. and V. τείνειν.To prevent the earth from spreading far: P. ὅπως μὴ διαχέοιτο ἐπὶ πολύ τὸ χῶμα (Thuc. 2.75).Afterwards it (the plague) spread alsoto the upper city: P. ὕστερον δὲ καὶ εἰς τὴν ἄνω πόλιν ἀφίκετο (Thuc. 2.48).Spread (of rumours, etc.): P. and V. διέρχεσθαι. V. ἐπέρχεσθαι.Increase: Ar. and P. ἐπῐδῐδόναι.Spread among (of rumours, etc.): P. and V. διέρχεσθαι (acc.), V. διήκειν (acc.).Spread over (of disease): P. ἐπινέμεσθαι (acc.) (Thuc. 2.54).Spread round: P. περιτείνεσθαι.
v. trans.
Stretch out: P. and V. τείνειν, ἐκτείνειν.
Strew: P. and V. στορεννύναι, Ar. and V. στορνύναι.
Circulate (rumours, etc.): P. and V. διαγγέλλειν, διᾰσπείρειν, Ar. and V. σπείρειν, P. κατασκεδαννύναι.
Spread reports (absol.): P. διαθροεῖν, λογοποιεῖν.
Diffuse: P. and V. διασπείρειν, διᾰδῐδόναι, V. ἐνδᾰτεῖσθαι, Ar. and V. σπείρειν.
Spread (a table, etc.): use Ar. and P. πᾰρᾰτῐθέναι.
Let a rich table be spread for you: V. σοὶ πλουσία τράπεζα κείσθω (Soph. El. 361).
Spread out: Ar. διᾰπεταννύναι.
Stretch out: P. and V. τείνειν, ἐκτείνειν.
Spread out the hands: V. ἀ̆ναπτύσσειν χέρας.
Lengthen: P. and V. τείνειν, ἐκτείνειν, μηκύ̄νειν ; see prolong.
Spread over: Ar. and P. κᾰτᾰπεταννύ̆ναι (τινά τινι), V. ὑ̆περτείνειν (τί τινος).
Spread under: P. and V. ὑ̆ποστορεννύναι (Xen., also Ar.).
V. intrans. Extend: P. and V. τείνειν.To prevent the earth from spreading far: P. ὅπως μὴ διαχέοιτο ἐπὶ πολύ τὸ χῶμα (Thuc. 2.75).Afterwards it (the plague) spread alsoto the upper city: P. ὕστερον δὲ καὶ εἰς τὴν ἄνω πόλιν ἀφίκετο (Thuc. 2.48).Spread (of rumours, etc.): P. and V. διέρχεσθαι. V. ἐπέρχεσθαι.Increase: Ar. and P. ἐπῐδῐδόναι.Spread among (of rumours, etc.): P. and V. διέρχεσθαι (acc.), V. διήκειν (acc.).Spread over (of disease): P. ἐπινέμεσθαι (acc.) (Thuc. 2.54).Spread round: P. περιτείνεσθαι.
spread
adj.
Of a bed: V. στρωτός.
Ill-spread: V. κᾰκόστρωτος.
adj.
Of a bed: V. στρωτός.
Ill-spread: V. κᾰκόστρωτος.
SPREAD
v. Transitively tendere: contendere (to spread out): distendere (to stretch apart or asunder): extendere (to stretch out extend): pandere: dispandere (to open spread out): explicare (to unfold). To spread nets plagas tendere (Cic. Off. 3 17 68); retia tendere (for an animal alicui; also figuratively). To spread the sails vela dare ventis; vela tendere or pandere (poetical).
Intransitively diffundi (of trees and their branches): luxuriari (to grow luxuriantly; of plants). To spread far late diffundi (of branches); vastis or patulis diffundi ramis (of trees); manare serpere (of a calamity a rumor; the latter also with the notion of gradual unobserved progress); increbrescere invalescere (as customs etc.); diffundi evagari (of diseases): luxury spreads luxus excrescit or pullulare coepit: to spread further longius serpere atque progredi (of an evil): to spread further every day serpere manareque in dies latius: a rumor spreads through the whole town rumor tota urbe manat or discurrit: the doctrine of Pythagoras spread far and wide doctrina Pythagoras longe lateque fluebat.
v. Transitively tendere: contendere (to spread out): distendere (to stretch apart or asunder): extendere (to stretch out extend): pandere: dispandere (to open spread out): explicare (to unfold). To spread nets plagas tendere (Cic. Off. 3 17 68); retia tendere (for an animal alicui; also figuratively). To spread the sails vela dare ventis; vela tendere or pandere (poetical).
Intransitively diffundi (of trees and their branches): luxuriari (to grow luxuriantly; of plants). To spread far late diffundi (of branches); vastis or patulis diffundi ramis (of trees); manare serpere (of a calamity a rumor; the latter also with the notion of gradual unobserved progress); increbrescere invalescere (as customs etc.); diffundi evagari (of diseases): luxury spreads luxus excrescit or pullulare coepit: to spread further longius serpere atque progredi (of an evil): to spread further every day serpere manareque in dies latius: a rumor spreads through the whole town rumor tota urbe manat or discurrit: the doctrine of Pythagoras spread far and wide doctrina Pythagoras longe lateque fluebat.
s. By circumlocution with the verb.
spread:
A. Trans.:
I. To extend in length and breadth over a larger area:
1. extendo, di, sum and tum, 3: to s. out (parchment) with a mallet, (chartam) malleo ex., Plin. 13, 12, 26: to s. out the wings (of an army), cornua ex., Curt.: v.TO STRETCH OUT .
2. pando, di, nsum and ssum, 3 (s. out wide or loose): to s. out the (open) hands (in prayer), palmas p., Lucr. 5, 1200: to s. out figs or grapes (to dry), ficus, uvas in sole p., Col. Strengthened: (1.) expando, 3: Plin.: Col. (2.) dispando, 3 (rare): clothes s. in the sun, dispansae vestes in sole, Lucr.: Pl.
3. explĭco, āvi and ui, ātum and ĭtum, 1 (by unfolding): to s. out raiment (so as to expose it to view), vestem ex., Cic. de Or. 1, 35, 161: it (the vine) s.s out its leaves, frondes ex., Virg. G. 2, 335: v.TO UNFOLD .
4. diffundo, fūdi, sum, 3 (in the manner of a stream, equably and freely): the sky beams with light s. abroad, nitet diffuso lumine coelum, Lucr. 1, 9: Cic.: cf. infr. (B.).
II. To unfold: esp. in phrr. to s. sail, s. a net: pando, 3: to s. the sails of argument, vela orationis p., Cic. Tusc. 4, 5, 9: to s. nets, retia p., Plin. (But the common prose phrr. are, vela dare and facere: retia tendere or ponere: v.SAIL , NET .) To s. one's tent, tentorium tendere, Caes. B. C. 3, 82. Also absol., tendere: v. TO PITCH (A.), and TENT .
III. To cover, furnish: Phr.: to s. a banquet before any one, convivium alicui apparare, explicare, Mart. 1, 99 (100): cibos alicui apponere, in mensam, Pl. Men. 1, 3, 29: v.TO PREPARE .
IV. To s. abroad, propagate: vulgo, 1: to s. (be the means of s.ing) complaints, morbos v., Liv. 3, 6: Curt.
V. To publish:
1. diffĕro, distŭli, dīlātum, 3, irr. (to set a story abroad: usu. with ref. to something false): more fully, sermonibus d. (to s. abroad by talk), Liv. 34, 49 (with direct obj.): also foll. by clause: to s. the report about any one that ..., alicui famam d. ... (foll. by acc. and inf.), Pl. Trin. 3, 2, 63: Ter.: also with clause introd. by tanquam, quasi: Tac.
2. effĕro, 3, irr. (to make a secret thing known): v.TO PUBLISH .
3. dīvulgo, 1: more fully, sermonibus d., Cic.: v.TO PUBLISH . Also in same sense, vulgo, 1: to s. abroad the tidings of a crime, facinus v. per omnes, Liv. 28, 27: and strengthened, pervulgo, 1: Cic. (Evulgare, like efferre, of making a secret known: Liv.: Tac.)
4. sĕro, sēvi, sătum, 3 (to disseminate): to s. abroad charges against the senate among the lower orders, crimina in senatum apud infimae plebis homines s., Liv. 24, 23, fin.: to s. rumours, rumores s., Virg.
5. in pass. sense may be used: exeo, ēmāno, percrēbresco, etc.: v. infr. (B.), andTO GET ABROAD . Phr.: to s. abroad mysterious hints, spargere voces in vulgum ambiguas, Virg. Aen. 2, 99.
B. Intrans.:
I. To become extended:
1. expr. by pass. refl. of verbs under (A.): esp. (1.) diffundor, 3: the branches (antlers) s. out very wide [as in the case of the palm, palma], rami quam late diffunduntur, Caes. B. G. 6, 26: so, Plin. Ep. 6, 16, 6, ramis diffundi (of the tree): the nutriment s.s through the trunks and boughs, cibus per truncos ac per ramos d., Lucr. 1, 354. (Cf. Val. Max. 1, 6, 3, where diffundere aquam per agros = to allow it to s. abroad over the land.) Join: diffundi et patescere, Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 3. (2.) extendor, 3: the fire s.s through the plains, ignis per campos ex., Virg. Aen. 10, 407: so of a plain itself, Ov. M. 1, 43. (3.) porrĭgor, 3 (with a longitudinal direction): (the ground s.s out into a plain, in planitiem p., Tac. A. 13, 38. (N.B.--The above may also be used act. with acc. of pron. refl.)
2. pătesco, ui, 3 (to open out wide, as a plain): Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 3: Tac.
3. serpo, psi, ptum, 3 (as a creeping plant, or a sore or cancer): the vine s.ing with intricate and erratic course, vitis serpens multiplici lapsu et erratico, Cic. Sen. 15, 52: cancer s.s, cancer s., Ov. M. 2, 826: Cels.
4. ēvăgor, 1 (wander and range abroad): Plin. 19, 8, 48 (of a plant running wild, e. per agros).
II. In fig. sense, to become widely prevalent:
1. incrēbresco, brui (-besco, -bui), 3 = to become frequent, gain ground: immorality is s.ing daily, mores deteriores in dies i., Pl. Merc. 5, 1, 9: licence was s.ing, increbrescebat licentia, Tac. A. 3, 60: Cic. (= to become prevalent).
2. so percrēbresco, 3 (stronger than preced.: to become very generally prevalent): when this report has s. abroad, quum haec fama percrebruerit, Cic. Verr. 4, 30, 68: Caes.
3. māno, 1: the evil has s. through Italy, malum per Italiam manavit, Cic. Cat. 4, 3, 6: the rumour s.s through the whole city, m. tota urbe rumor, Liv. So ēmāno, 1 (to get abroad, become known): to circulate and s. amongst the people, exire atque in vulgus e., Cic. R. Am. 1, 3: the evil s. more widely, malum latius emanabat, Flor. 4, 9, 5. (Cic. would have said manabat.)
4. serpo, psi, ptum, 3 (to s. gradually and insidiously): contagion s.s, s. contagia, Virg. G. 3, 469: the rumour s.s, s. rumor, Cic. Mur. 21, fin.: esp. of evils: cf. id. Ph. 4, 3, fin., malum obscure repens multas provincias occupavit.
5. ēvăgor, 1 (of a disease): Liv. 3, 7, fin. (late evagata est vis morbi).
6. to s. through, take possession of, occŭpo, 1 (of fear, belief, etc., filling people's minds): such a panic s. through all the army, tantus timor omnem exercitum occupavit, Caes. B. G. 1, 39: such a superstitious feeling has s. through the minds of the Sicilians, tanta superstitio mentes omnium Siculorum occupavit, Cic. Verr. 4, 51, 113: Christianity s. through the whole R. empire, Christi fides totum imperium R. occupavit: cf. supr. 4 (last ex.).
A. Trans.:
I. To extend in length and breadth over a larger area:
1. extendo, di, sum and tum, 3: to s. out (parchment) with a mallet, (chartam) malleo ex., Plin. 13, 12, 26: to s. out the wings (of an army), cornua ex., Curt.: v.
2. pando, di, nsum and ssum, 3 (s. out wide or loose): to s. out the (open) hands (in prayer), palmas p., Lucr. 5, 1200: to s. out figs or grapes (to dry), ficus, uvas in sole p., Col. Strengthened: (1.) expando, 3: Plin.: Col. (2.) dispando, 3 (rare): clothes s. in the sun, dispansae vestes in sole, Lucr.: Pl.
3. explĭco, āvi and ui, ātum and ĭtum, 1 (by unfolding): to s. out raiment (so as to expose it to view), vestem ex., Cic. de Or. 1, 35, 161: it (the vine) s.s out its leaves, frondes ex., Virg. G. 2, 335: v.
4. diffundo, fūdi, sum, 3 (in the manner of a stream, equably and freely): the sky beams with light s. abroad, nitet diffuso lumine coelum, Lucr. 1, 9: Cic.: cf. infr. (B.).
II. To unfold: esp. in phrr. to s. sail, s. a net: pando, 3: to s. the sails of argument, vela orationis p., Cic. Tusc. 4, 5, 9: to s. nets, retia p., Plin. (But the common prose phrr. are, vela dare and facere: retia tendere or ponere: v.
III. To cover, furnish: Phr.: to s. a banquet before any one, convivium alicui apparare, explicare, Mart. 1, 99 (100): cibos alicui apponere, in mensam, Pl. Men. 1, 3, 29: v.
IV. To s. abroad, propagate: vulgo, 1: to s. (be the means of s.ing) complaints, morbos v., Liv. 3, 6: Curt.
V. To publish:
1. diffĕro, distŭli, dīlātum, 3, irr. (to set a story abroad: usu. with ref. to something false): more fully, sermonibus d. (to s. abroad by talk), Liv. 34, 49 (with direct obj.): also foll. by clause: to s. the report about any one that ..., alicui famam d. ... (foll. by acc. and inf.), Pl. Trin. 3, 2, 63: Ter.: also with clause introd. by tanquam, quasi: Tac.
2. effĕro, 3, irr. (to make a secret thing known): v.
3. dīvulgo, 1: more fully, sermonibus d., Cic.: v.
4. sĕro, sēvi, sătum, 3 (to disseminate): to s. abroad charges against the senate among the lower orders, crimina in senatum apud infimae plebis homines s., Liv. 24, 23, fin.: to s. rumours, rumores s., Virg.
5. in pass. sense may be used: exeo, ēmāno, percrēbresco, etc.: v. infr. (B.), and
B. Intrans.:
I. To become extended:
1. expr. by pass. refl. of verbs under (A.): esp. (1.) diffundor, 3: the branches (antlers) s. out very wide [as in the case of the palm, palma], rami quam late diffunduntur, Caes. B. G. 6, 26: so, Plin. Ep. 6, 16, 6, ramis diffundi (of the tree): the nutriment s.s through the trunks and boughs, cibus per truncos ac per ramos d., Lucr. 1, 354. (Cf. Val. Max. 1, 6, 3, where diffundere aquam per agros = to allow it to s. abroad over the land.) Join: diffundi et patescere, Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 3. (2.) extendor, 3: the fire s.s through the plains, ignis per campos ex., Virg. Aen. 10, 407: so of a plain itself, Ov. M. 1, 43. (3.) porrĭgor, 3 (with a longitudinal direction): (the ground s.s out into a plain, in planitiem p., Tac. A. 13, 38. (N.B.--The above may also be used act. with acc. of pron. refl.)
2. pătesco, ui, 3 (to open out wide, as a plain): Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 3: Tac.
3. serpo, psi, ptum, 3 (as a creeping plant, or a sore or cancer): the vine s.ing with intricate and erratic course, vitis serpens multiplici lapsu et erratico, Cic. Sen. 15, 52: cancer s.s, cancer s., Ov. M. 2, 826: Cels.
4. ēvăgor, 1 (wander and range abroad): Plin. 19, 8, 48 (of a plant running wild, e. per agros).
II. In fig. sense, to become widely prevalent:
1. incrēbresco, brui (-besco, -bui), 3 = to become frequent, gain ground: immorality is s.ing daily, mores deteriores in dies i., Pl. Merc. 5, 1, 9: licence was s.ing, increbrescebat licentia, Tac. A. 3, 60: Cic. (= to become prevalent).
2. so percrēbresco, 3 (stronger than preced.: to become very generally prevalent): when this report has s. abroad, quum haec fama percrebruerit, Cic. Verr. 4, 30, 68: Caes.
3. māno, 1: the evil has s. through Italy, malum per Italiam manavit, Cic. Cat. 4, 3, 6: the rumour s.s through the whole city, m. tota urbe rumor, Liv. So ēmāno, 1 (to get abroad, become known): to circulate and s. amongst the people, exire atque in vulgus e., Cic. R. Am. 1, 3: the evil s. more widely, malum latius emanabat, Flor. 4, 9, 5. (Cic. would have said manabat.)
4. serpo, psi, ptum, 3 (to s. gradually and insidiously): contagion s.s, s. contagia, Virg. G. 3, 469: the rumour s.s, s. rumor, Cic. Mur. 21, fin.: esp. of evils: cf. id. Ph. 4, 3, fin., malum obscure repens multas provincias occupavit.
5. ēvăgor, 1 (of a disease): Liv. 3, 7, fin. (late evagata est vis morbi).
6. to s. through, take possession of, occŭpo, 1 (of fear, belief, etc., filling people's minds): such a panic s. through all the army, tantus timor omnem exercitum occupavit, Caes. B. G. 1, 39: such a superstitious feeling has s. through the minds of the Sicilians, tanta superstitio mentes omnium Siculorum occupavit, Cic. Verr. 4, 51, 113: Christianity s. through the whole R. empire, Christi fides totum imperium R. occupavit: cf. supr. 4 (last ex.).
στόρνυμι
spread
φᾶρος
(a large piece of woven cloth): cloak, mantle, bed spread, shroud
spread
κακόστρωτος
ill-spread
καταστορέννυμι
spread, cover with
περιπετάννυμι
to spread
πολυσπερής
wide-spread
στορέννυμι
to spread
στρωτός
spread, laid, covered
ἀποπιδύω
ooze out, spread
ἀρτίχριστος
fresh-spread
ἀχύνετος
far-spread, copious
ἐκστρώννυμι
spread
ἐνστόρνυμι
lay (a table), spread on top
ἐπιπορθμεύομαι
spread
ὑποστόρνυμι
spread, lay
ὑφαπλόω
spread
στρωμνή
a bed spread
spread
φᾶρος
(a large piece of woven cloth): cloak, mantle, bed spread, shroud
appearing fewer than 50 times
διαστρώννυμιspread
κακόστρωτος
ill-spread
καταστορέννυμι
spread, cover with
περιπετάννυμι
to spread
πολυσπερής
wide-spread
στορέννυμι
to spread
στρωτός
spread, laid, covered
ἀποπιδύω
ooze out, spread
ἀρτίχριστος
fresh-spread
ἀχύνετος
far-spread, copious
ἐκστρώννυμι
spread
ἐνστόρνυμι
lay (a table), spread on top
ἐπιπορθμεύομαι
spread
ὑποστόρνυμι
spread, lay
ὑφαπλόω
spread
στρωμνή
a bed spread
augeo
to increase, augment, enlarge, spread, extend
passim
spread, scattered about far and wide, at different places, generally, in every direction,...
distribuo
to divide, distribute, apportion, spread
propago
to set forward, extend, enlarge, spread, increase
lino
to daub, besmear, anoint, spread, rub over
to wander from the way, spread, extend
increbresco
to quicken, grow, increase, rise, spread
pervagatus
spread out, wide-spread, well known
stragulum
a spread, covering, bed-spread
to increase, augment, enlarge, spread, extend
passim
spread, scattered about far and wide, at different places, generally, in every direction,...
distribuo
to divide, distribute, apportion, spread
propago
to set forward, extend, enlarge, spread, increase
lino
to daub, besmear, anoint, spread, rub over
appearing fewer than 50 times
exspatiorto wander from the way, spread, extend
increbresco
to quicken, grow, increase, rise, spread
pervagatus
spread out, wide-spread, well known
stragulum
a spread, covering, bed-spread