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dispensa

1. third-person singular past historic of dispenser

• IPA^(key): /diˈspɛn.sa/
• Rhymes: -ɛnsa
• Hyphenation: di‧spèn‧sa

From Medieval Latin or Late Latin dīspēnsa, feminine past participle of dīspendō, from Latin dis- + pendō.

dispensa f (plural dispense)

1. distribution, handing out
2. larder, pantry
   • 2003, Antonio Tabucchi, chapter XXI, in Sostiene Pereira : una testimonianza [Pereira Declares], Rome: La biblioteca di Repubblica, published 1994, →ISBN, page 147:

     All'ora di pranzo pensò di prepararsi qualcosa, ma la sua dispensa era sfornita. Sostiene Pereira di aver pensato che magari poteva mangiare un boccone al Café Orquídea, anche tardi, e poi andare al giornale.

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3. (furniture) sideboard

   Synonym: buffet

4. instalment/installment
5. exemption, dispensation (from)

• dispendere

dispensa

1. inflection of dispensare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

dispēnsā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of dispēnsō

• dispensa 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)

• Homophone: despensa
• Hyphenation: dis‧pen‧sa

dispensa f (plural dispensas)

1. dismissal (act of dismissing or state of having been dismissed)

dispensa

1. inflection of dispensar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from French dispenser, from Latin dispensare.

a dispensa (third-person singular present dispensează, past participle dispensat) 1st conjugation

1. to dispense

dispensa

1. inflection of dispensar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from Spanish dispensa.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /disˈpensa/
• Rhymes: -ensa
• Syllabification: dis‧pen‧sa

dispensa (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜐ᜔ᜉᜒᜈ᜔ᜐ)

1. forgiveness; excuse

   Synonym: paumanhin

2. certificate granting dispensation