Where does “indispensável” come from?
indispensável (Portuguese) comes from Portuguese dispensável, from Portuguese dispensar, from Latin dispensare, from Latin dispendere, from Latin pendēre, from Latin pendō, from Proto-Italic pendō, from Proto-Indo-European (s)péndeti — to stretch.
indispensável (Portuguese): indispensable, necessary
Ancestry of “indispensável”, step by step