prodigate

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin prodigo

Verb

1. (archaic, transitive) To squander.
   • Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter LXIII:

     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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Verb

prodigate

1. second-person plural present indicative of prodigare
2. second-person plural imperative of prodigare
3. feminine plural of prodigato