dispenso Latin · revision 32645

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *(s)pend-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [dɪsˈpẽː.soː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [disˈpɛn.so]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dispēnsō''' (present infinitive dispēnsāre, perfect active dispēnsāvī, supine dispēnsātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dis-|pēnsō|t2=to weigh out, pay]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) [[m|la|pēnsō]] is a frequentative of [[m|la|pendō|t=to hang; to weigh out, pay]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*pend-e/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*(s)pend-|t=to spin]]; the sense went from hanging to weighing out and paying.^(Wiktionary)^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ In the OLD's earliest quotation, from Plautus, a character has used two hundred coins to be paid out.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) Lewis & Short take it of distributing pay among soldiers.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense, of money, is to pay out or distribute by weight, and so to apportion.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) It is then to manage or administer, especially a household: Cicero speaks of the man who managed his domestic affairs.^(OLD 2012) More widely it is to order, arrange, regulate: Livy writes of arranging the year by inserting intercalary months.^(OLD 2012) Caper reported that the oldest writers used a deponent ⟨dispēnsor⟩.^(TLL) Church Latin glosses it to distribute, dispense, regulate.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of paying out money.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of managing a household.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of regulating the calendar.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To pay out, [[m|en|distribute]], apportion; to [[m|en|dispense]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To [[m|en|manage]], administer, control.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To order, arrange, [[m|en|regulate]]; to husband.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dispēnsātiō]]

+ * [[dispēnsātor]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[penso|alt=pēnsō]]

+ * [[pendo|alt=pendō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}