disseminate

An adaptation of Latin dissēmināt-, the perfect passive participial stem of dissēminō (“I broadcast”, “I disseminate”), from dis- (“in all directions”) + sēminō (“I plant”, “I sow”), from sēmen (“seed”).

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /dɪˈsɛmɪˌneɪt/, /dɪˈsɛməˌneɪt/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /dɪˈsemɪˌnæɪt/

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disseminate (third-person singular simple present disseminates, present participle disseminating, simple past and past participle disseminated)

1. (transitive) To sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions, etc, or concrete things, for growth and propagation, like seeds.
2. (intransitive) To become widespread.

   The values of the human rights movement have disseminated throughout the world.

• spread
• circulate
• propagate

• promulgate

• dissemination

• “disseminate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “disseminate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• mediastines

disseminate

1. inflection of disseminare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

disseminate f pl

1. feminine plural of disseminato

dissēmināte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dissēminō