disseminate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To become widespread.

   The values of the human rights movement have disseminated throughout the world.

2. 2
   verb

   cause to become widely known

3. 3
   verb

   To sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions, etc, or concrete things, for growth and propagation, like seeds.

Etymology

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”).