spartere

Neapolitan

Alternative forms

• spartire
• sparte, spartì (alt. spellings)

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *expartīre, with a change in verb class. Cf. Italian spartire, Ladin spartir.

Pronunciation

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [ˈʃpartərə]^?

Verb

spartere

1. to divide
2. to share

References

• Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “spartere”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano