LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

See spōns.

AdverbEdit

sponte (not comparable)

  1. freely, willingly, voluntarily, spontaneously

NounEdit

sponte

  1. ablative singular of spōns

ReferencesEdit

  • sponte”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • sponte”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sponte in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) that is self-evident, goes without saying: hoc sua sponte appāret
  • sponte in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016