prodigate

English

Etymology

From Latin prodigo.

Verb

prodigate (third-person singular simple present prodigates, present participle prodigating, simple past and past participle prodigated)

1. (archaic, transitive) To squander.
   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 63, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     His gold is prodigated in every direction which his stupid menaces fail to frighten.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “prodigate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

prodigate

1. inflection of prodigare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

prodigate f pl

1. feminine plural of prodigato

Spanish

Verb

prodigate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of prodigar combined with te