How do you pronounce disseminate?

The recorded pronunciation is /dɪˈsɛmɪˌneɪt/.

disseminate

/dɪˈsɛmɪˌneɪt/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.03 in modern English

Syllables: dis-sem-i-nate
IPA: /dɪˈsɛmɪˌneɪt/

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Meaning

verb

To sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions, etc, or concrete things, for growth and propagation, like seeds.

Transitive verb

verb

To become widespread.

Intransitive verb

Example Sentences

"The values of the human rights movement have disseminated throughout the world."
"As the missletoe is disseminated by birds, its existence depends on birds; and it may metaphorically be said to struggle with other fruit-bearing plants, in order to tempt birds to devour and thus disseminate its seeds rather than those of other plants. In these several senses, which pass into each other, I use for convenience sake the general term of struggle for existence."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ ▲ Proto-Indo-European *trísinflu. Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *séh₁mn̥ Proto-Italic *sēmn̥ Latin sēmen Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin sēminō Latin dissēminō ▲ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Latin dissēminātusbor. English disseminate Borrowed from Latin dissēminātus, the perfect passive participle of dissēminō (“to broadcast, disseminate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), further from dis- (“asunder, in all directions”) + sēminō (“to plant, sow”), from sēmen (“seed”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). See also Middle English disseminat(e) (“disseminated”).

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /dɪˈsɛmɪˌneɪt/
British English: /dɪˈsɛmɪˌneɪt/

Usage

Inflected Forms

disseminates (present, singular) disseminating (participle, present) disseminated (participle, past) disseminated (past)

Derived Forms

autodisseminate disseminatability undisseminatability undisseminatable disseminatable dissemination disseminative disseminator disseminatory redisseminate

Frequently Paired Words

inseminate semen seminate promulgate

Synonyms

spread circulate propagate circularize circularise distribute broadcast diffuse disperse pass around

Rhymes With

emanate inseminate