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語源

From 中期英語 sprite, spryt, spreyte, from Old French esprit (“spirit”), from Latin spīritus. Doublet of spirit, spiritus, spirytus, spright, and esprit.

(computer graphics): First used by Danny Hillis at Texas Instruments in the late 1970s.

(meteorology): An acronym for Stratospheric Perturbations Resulting from Intense Thunderstorm Electrification.

発音

• enPR: sprīt, IPA: /spɹaɪt/
• 韻: -aɪt

名詞

sprite (plural sprites)

1. (mythology) Any of various supernatural beings, loosely defined:
   1. A spirit; a soul; a shade.
      • 1803, William Blake, Auguries of Innocence:

        He who torments the chafer's sprite
        Weaves a bower in endless night.

   2. An apparition; a ghost.
   3. An elf, fairy, or goblin; one with a small humanlike physical body.
2. (computer graphics) A two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene.
3. (meteorology) A large electrical discharge that occurs high above the cumulonimbus cloud of an active thunderstorm, which appears as a luminous red or orange flash.
4. The green woodpecker, or yaffle (Picus viridis).
5. (entomology) Any of various African damselflies of the genus Pseudagrion (of which, Australian species are named riverdamsels).
6. A spayed female ferret.
7. (obsolete) Alternative form of spright (“frame of mind, disposition”).

同意語

• (supernatural creature): See goblin (hostile)

派生語

関連する語

• sprightly

派生した語

• → Japanese: スプライト (supuraito)
• → Russian: спрайт (sprajt)

動詞

sprite (third-person singular simple present sprites, present participle spriting, simple past and past participle sprited)

1. (art, informal) To draw a (specifically) pixel art sprite.

   sprited the new NPCs

アナグラム

• Pitres, Presti, Priest, esprit, pierst, priest, re-tips, respit, retips, ripest, sitrep, stripe, tripes