Sprite

See also: sprite

English

Etymology

In the early 1940s, Coca-Cola started running an advertising campaign featuring an elf-like figure called “Sprite Boy” (see sprite (“elf”)). The name originated from the previous Coca-Cola campaign, but it was a focus group that ultimately chose the name “Sprite”.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sprīt, IPA^(key): /spɹaɪt/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aɪt

Proper noun

Sprite (plural Sprites)

1. A colourless, caffeine-free, lemon and lime-flavoured soft drink.

Translations

colourless, caffeine-free, lemon and lime-flavoured soft drink

• Arabic: سْبْرَايْت m (sbrāyt)
• Armenian: Սփրայթ (Spʻraytʻ)
• Belarusian: Спрайт m (Sprajt)
• Bengali: স্প্রাইট (spraiṭ)
• Bulgarian: Спрайт m (Sprajt)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雪碧 (zh) (xuěbì)

• Finnish: Sprite
• Georgian: სპრაიტი (sṗraiṭi)
• Greek: Σπραιτ (Sprait)
• Hebrew: סְפְּרַיִּיט (he) m (sprayt)
• Hindi: स्प्राइट m or f (sprāiṭ)
• Japanese: スプライト (Supuraito)
• Korean: 스프라이트 (Seupeuraiteu)
• Macedonian: Спрајт m (Sprajt)
• Persian: سپرایت (sprâyt)
• Russian: Спрайт m (Sprajt)
• Thai: สไปรต์
• Tibetan: བསིལ་ལྦུ (bsil lbu)
• Ukrainian: Спрайт m (Sprajt)

Anagrams

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