From Middle English sprite, spryt, spreyte, from Old French esprit, from Latin spiritus.

• enPR: sprīt, IPA: /spɹaɪt/

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

• (supernatural creature) See goblin (hostile)

• sprightly

• German: Geist, Erscheinung, Seele
• Russian: дух

• German: Kobold, Elf, Elfe, Elfin
• Russian: эльф

• German: Sprite
• Russian: спрайт

• German: Sprite, Kobold
• Russian: спрайт

sprite (sprites, present participle spriting; simple past and past participle sprited)

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

   sprited the new NPCs

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

• enPR: sprīt, IPA: /spɹaɪt/

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

• Russian: Спрайт