(a) To create colored spots on (food) by sprinkling or splashing coloring matter; ben spotted, be soiled or smudged (with dirt or muck); (b) ppl. spotted, speckled, marked with spots; also, spiritually disfigured or marred; as noun: spotted sheep; (c) ben spotted, ?to suffer from cataract; (d) alch. spotted pantere, the varicolored result of a certain series of alchemical procedures.

(a) To tarnish (someone's honor or reputation, one's own dignity), sully; corrupt (one's mind or heart); ben spotted, be spiritually tainted; ppl. spotted, tainted (with sin); also, of a sacrificial animal: ceremonially unclean; (b) ?to represent (sth.) imperfectly in writing.

(a) Glossing L labare, labefacere, and labi to totter, make unsteady, slide, etc., but interpreted as being related to L labes a defect, stain; (b) ?error for froten v.