dispendium

Latin

Etymology

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

Noun

dispendium n (genitive dispendiī or dispendī); second declension

1. expense, cost
2. loss

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	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

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

References

• “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.