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adjective recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances
originFrom 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]”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0