dispensar

dispensar

1. to dispense

Borrowed from Latin dispēnsāre (“to weight out, pay out, distribute, regulate, manage, control, dispense”), frequentative of dispendō (“to weight out”), from dis- (“apart”) + pendō (“to weigh”).

• Hyphenation: dis‧pen‧sar

dispensar (first-person singular present dispenso, first-person singular preterite dispensei, past participle dispensado)

1. to dispense
2. to dismiss

Borrowed from French dispensaire.

dispensar n (plural dispensare)

1. dispensary

From Latin dispēnsare (“to weight out, pay out, distribute, regulate, manage, control, dispense”), frequentative of dispendere (“to weight out”), from dis- (“apart”) + pendere (“to weigh”).

• IPA^(key): /dispenˈsaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: dis‧pen‧sar

dispensar (first-person singular present dispenso, first-person singular preterite dispensé, past participle dispensado)

1. (transitive) to dispense
2. (transitive) to excuse, pardon

   Synonyms: excusar, personal

• “dispensar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28