Where does “dispose” come from?

Dispose comes from French disposer, from Latin disponere meaning to arrange or set in order, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European dwóh₁ meaning two.

dispose (English): To eliminate or to get rid of something; To...

Definitions

  1. To eliminate or to get rid of something; To...

Ancestry of “dispose”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FrenchdisposerTo organize, to arrange, to distribute in a...
2Latindispōnere—

Words derived from “dispose”

Every word from Latin dispōnere →Every word from French disposer →