English
spatter
Spatter may come from Dutch spatten ‘to spout, burst’.
- Dutchc. 1500–presentspatten‘to spout, burst’uncertain
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1611spatter
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Dutchc. 1500–presentspatten‘to spout, burst’uncertain
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1611spatter
Earliest quotation: c. 1611, George Chapman, The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets: “His axel-tree, and chariot wheeles, all spatterd with the…”
Formed from -er
Every English word from Dutch spatten
Today it means
verb To splash (someone or something) with small droplets.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Dutch spatten / spatter