expensus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of expendō.

Participle

expēnsus (feminine expēnsa, neuter expēnsum); first/second-declension participle

1. weighed
2. paid
3. judged

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	expēnsus	expēnsa	expēnsum		expēnsī	expēnsae	expēnsa
genitive	expēnsī	expēnsae	expēnsī		expēnsōrum	expēnsārum	expēnsōrum
dative	expēnsō	expēnsae	expēnsō		expēnsīs
accusative	expēnsum	expēnsam	expēnsum		expēnsōs	expēnsās	expēnsa
ablative	expēnsō	expēnsā	expēnsō		expēnsīs
vocative	expēnse	expēnsa	expēnsum		expēnsī	expēnsae	expēnsa

Descendants

• Catalan: expenses
• Friulian: spese
• Italian: speso, spesa
• Ladin: speisa
• Old French: espense, espoise
  • → English: expense
• Old Spanish: espesa
• Portuguese: expensas
• Romansch: spaisa, spesa
• Sicilian: spisa
• Spanish: expensas
• Venetan: spexa
• → Proto-West Germanic: *spīsā

References

• “expensus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• expensus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) account-book; ledger: codex or tabulae ratio accepti et expensi
    
  • (ambiguous) to put a thing down to a man's account: alicui expensum ferre aliquid
    
  • (ambiguous) the account of receipts and expenditure: ratio acceptorum et datorum (accepti et expensi) (Amic. 16. 58)