The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσπερματίζειν“to sow, spread seed upon”
- French · derived fromspermatiser
- Latin · derived fromspermatizare“to spermatize”
- English todayspermatize
From Latin spermatizare (“to spermatize”), possibly via French spermatiser, from Ancient Greek σπερματίζειν (spermatízein, “to sow, spread seed upon”), from σπέρμα (spérma, “seed, sperm”). By surface analysis, spermat- + -ize.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.