impendo

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Latin

Etymology

From in- +‎ pendō (pay).

Pronunciation

Verb

impendō (present infinitive impendere, perfect active impendī, supine impēnsum); third conjugation

  1. to spend or expend
  2. to devote (money, time etc.) to

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Spanish: impender

See also

References

  • impendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • impendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • impendo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) a sword hangs over his neck: gladius cervicibus impendet
    • (ambiguous) dangers threaten a man: pericula alicui impendent, imminent
    • (ambiguous) to expend great labour on a thing: operam (laborem, curam) in or ad aliquid impendere
    • (ambiguous) the house threatens to fall in (vid. sect. X. 5, note 'Threaten'...): domus ruina impendet
    • (ambiguous) a war is imminent: bellum impendet, imminet, instat

Spanish

Verb

impendo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of impender