Other forms: disseminated, disseminating, disseminates
To disseminate is to spread information widely. Disseminate the findings, widely disseminated, disseminate propaganda.
It is the formal word in research, where disseminating findings is a duty and often a funding condition. The Latin means to scatter seed, which is exactly the image of information spread to land where it will.
1verbdisseminateTo spread information widely.
“The health department used radio and posters to disseminate advice about the virus.”
disseminate is a spreading.
Latin disseminare means to scatter seed, from dis plus semen, a seed.
Latin
dissēminātus
English, today
disseminate
Built from
Borrowed from Latin dissēminātus., the perfect passive participle of dissēminō (“to broadcast, disseminate”) (see -ate), further from dis- (“asunder, in all directions”) + sēminō (“to plant, sow”), from sēmen (“seed”) + -ō. See also Middle English disseminat (“disseminated”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA