Where does “dépensier” come from?
dépensier (French) comes from French dépenser, from French dépense, from Middle French despense, from Late Latin dispensa, from Latin dīspendō, from Latin pandō, from Latin pandus, from Latin -us — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
dépensier (French): spendthrift
Definitions
- spendthrift
Ancestry of “dépensier”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | dépenser | to spend |
| 2 | French | dépense | expense; expenditure; spending |
| 3 | Middle French | despense | — |
| 4 | Late Latin | dispensa | — |
| 5 | Latin | dīspendō | to dispense, distribute |
| 6 | Latin | pandō | to spread or open (out), extend |
| 7 | Latin | pandus | bend, crooked, curved; bent, crooked |
| 8 | Latin | -us | suffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,... |
| 9 | Old Latin | -os | accusative masculine plural of -us |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -os | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -ós | Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting... |