Etymology

spritz

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Today it means: A sprinkling or spray of liquid; a small amount of liquid. Full definition →

Italian spritz ← Austrian German Gespritzter
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spritz · noun, verb1

Cognate with various Germanic counterparts, including German spritzen, Pennsylvania German schpritze, Yiddish שפּריץ (shprits, noun), and Yiddish שפּריצן (shpritsn, verb), and variously said (by various sources) to be borrowed from any of them; spritzer is said by some sources to be borrowed from German Spritzer, rather than being an English agent noun derived from this verb, but by surface analysis the connection is clear, even if sources do not adduce the evidence for the diachrony.

spritz · noun2

Clipping of spritzer. Piecewise doublet of etymology 1.

spritz · noun3

  1. Austrian German · derived fromGespritzter“spritzer”
  2. Italian · borrowed fromspritz
  3. English todayspritz

From Italian spritz, a shortening of Austrian German Gespritzter (“spritzer”). Piecewise doublet of etymologies 1 and 2.

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