sprint

• sprunt (dialectal)

Alteration of earlier sprent (“to leap; bound; dart”), from Middle English sprenten, from Old English *sprentan, from Proto-Germanic *sprantijaną, causative of Proto-Germanic *sprintaną (“to jump up; bounce”), from Proto-Indo-European *sprend-, *sprendʰ- (“to flinch; jump”), from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to twitch; fidget; flinch; jump; be quick”). Cognate with Middle High German sprenzen (“to sprinkle; splash”), Swedish spritta (“to startle”), Icelandic spretta (“to spring forth; emerge; arise; develop”).

• Rhymes: -ɪnt

sprint (plural sprints)

1. A short race at top speed
2. A burst of speed or activity
3. In Agile software development, a period of development of a fixed time that is preceded and followed by meetings.

sprint (third-person singular simple present sprints, present participle sprinting, simple past sprinted or (nonstandard, humorous) sprant, past participle sprinted or (nonstandard, humorous) sprunt)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To run, cycle, etc. at top speed for a short period

• prints

Borrowed from English.

sprint m

1. sprint

• sprintovat
• sprinter m

Borrowed from English sprint.

• IPA^(key): /sprɪnt/

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• Hyphenation: sprint
• Rhymes: -ɪnt

sprint m (plural sprints or sprinten, diminutive sprintje n)

1. sprint

• eindsprint
• massasprint
• sprinten

Borrowed from English.

• IPA^(key): /spʁint/

sprint m (plural sprints)

1. sprint, short top-speed race.

• “sprint” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from English.

sprint m (invariable)

1. sprint (short, fast race)
2. vivacity, brio

sprint f (invariable)

1. A motor car having strong acceleration

Borrowed from English sprint.

sprȉnt m (Cyrillic spelling спри̏нт)

1. sprint

Borrowed from English.

sprint m (plural sprints)

1. sprint