dispendium

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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From dispendō (to weigh out, distribute) +‎ -ium.

Noun[edit]

dispendium n (genitive dispendiī or dispendī); second declension

  1. expense, cost
  2. loss

Declension[edit]

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative dispendium dispendia
Genitive dispendiī
dispendī1
dispendiōrum
Dative dispendiō dispendiīs
Accusative dispendium dispendia
Ablative dispendiō dispendiīs
Vocative dispendium dispendia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants[edit]

  • Catalan: dispendi
  • Galician: dispendio
  • Italian: dispendio
  • Portuguese: dispêndio
  • Spanish: dispendio

References[edit]

  • dispendium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • dispendium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • dispendium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • dispendium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.