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”).

• (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.

   • 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species:

     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.

• spread
• circulate
• propagate

• promulgate

• dissemination
• semen

• “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