Where does “dispensare” come from?
dispensare (Romanian) comes from Romanian dispensă, from French dispense, from French dispenser, from Latin dispensare, from Latin dispendere, from Latin pendēre, from Latin pendō, from Proto-Italic pendō — to stretch.
dispensare (Romanian): dispensation
Definitions
- dispensation
Ancestry of “dispensare”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | dispensă | exemption |
| 2 | French | dispense | dispensation; first-person singular present... |
| 3 | French | dispenser | to excuse, exempt; to dispense, give out,... |
| 4 | Latin | dispensare | present active infinitive of dispēnsō;... |
| 5 | Latin | dispendere | to weight out; weigh out; to weigh out |
| 6 | Latin | pendēre | — |
| 7 | Latin | pendō | to weigh, weigh out |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | pendō | hang, put in a hanging position |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)péndeti | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)pend- | to stretch |