sparte

Learned borrowing from Latin spartum.

• IPA^(key): /spaʁt/

sparte m (plural spartes)

1. esparto (Lygeum spartum)
   • 1999, Rahma Bessah, Françoise Rozé, Dalila Nedjraoui, “Activité cellulolytique in vitro de sols de deux steppes à alfa (Stipa tenacissima L.) d’Algérie”, in Ecologia Mediterranea‎^[1], volume 25, number 2, page 187a:

     La végétation est une steppe mixte à alfa (Stipa tenacissima) et sparte (Lygeum spartum). Son recouvrement global est de 50% (dont 30% de alfa et 10% de sparte).

     The vegetation is a steppe mixed from the two types of esparto grass Stipa tenacissima and Lygeum spartum. Coverage overall is 50% and 10% each.

• “sparte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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sparte

1. inflection of sparen:
   1. first/third-person singular preterite
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive II

sparte

1. alternative spelling of spartere (“to divide, share”)

sparte

1. simple past of spare