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Latin
Etymology
From dispendō (“to weigh out, distribute”) + -ium.
Noun
dispendium n (genitive dispendiī or dispendī); second declension
- expense, cost
- loss
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
References
- “dispendium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “dispendium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dispendium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- dispendium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.