sporadic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances

   A city subjected to sporadic bombing raids.

From Medieval Latin sporadicus (whence also French sporadique, Italian sporadico, Spanish esporádico), from Ancient Greek σποραδικός (sporadikós), from σποράς (sporás, “scattered, dispersed”), from σπορά (sporá), σπόρος (spóros, “a sowing [of seed]”).

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