expendo

Latin

Etymology

From ex- +‎ pendō (weigh, weigh out).

Pronunciation

Verb

expendō (present infinitive expendere, perfect active expendī, supine expēnsum); third conjugation

  1. to weigh
  2. to pay out
  3. to judge

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Catalan: expendre
  • English: expend
  • Galician: expender
  • Italian: spendere
  • Portuguese: expender
  • Proto-West Germanic: *spendōn (see there for further descendants)
  • Sicilian: spènniri
  • Spanish: expender

References

  • expendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • expendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • expendo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to suffer punishment: poenas dependere, expendere, solvere, persolvere

Spanish

Verb

expendo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of expender