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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /diˈspɛn.do/
- Rhymes: -ɛndo
- Hyphenation: di‧spèn‧do
Verb
dispendo
- first-person singular present indicative of dispendere
Latin
Etymology 1
From dis- (“asunder”) + pendō (“I weigh”).
Verb
dispendō (present infinitive dispendere, perfect active dispendī, supine dispēnsum); third conjugation
- to dispense, distribute
Conjugation
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From dis- (“asunder”) + pandō (“spread”).
Verb
dispendō (present infinitive dispendere, perfect active dispendī, supine dispessum); third conjugation
- to spread out, to stretch out, to extend, to expand
Conjugation
References
- dispendo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “dispendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press