disposar
Appearance
Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Back-formed from Latin dispositus, perfect participle of dispōnō.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Northern, Central) [dis.puˈza]
- IPA(key): (Balearic, Northwestern) [dis.poˈza]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [dis.poˈzaɾ]
- Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
Verb
[edit]disposar (first-person singular present disposo, first-person singular preterite disposí, past participle disposat); root stress: (Northern) /o̞/; (Balearic, Central, Northwestern, Valencia) /ɔ/
- (transitive) to arrange, to lay out, to line up
- 1964, Josep M. de Sagarra, La ruta blava:
- Aquests pobles fan pensar en un entremig polsós de Mollet i Granollers. Pobles disposats al llarg de la carretera, amb una arquitectura tan impersonal, tan pobra i tan poc musulmana com vulgueu...
- Those towns call to mind a dusty interval between Mollet and Granollers. Towns arranged along the length of the highway, with an architecture as impersonal, as poor, and as little Islamic as you could want...
- (transitive) to prepare
- Synonym: preparar
- (transitive) to provide
- (intransitive, with de) to make use of
- (intransitive, with de) to have available, to be at the disposal of
Conjugation
[edit] Central Catalan conjugation of disposar (first conjugation)
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “disposar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “disposar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
- “disposar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “disposar”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)