despender

From Old Galician-Portuguese despender; from Latin dispendere, present infinitive of dispendo (“to spread; distribute”), probably influenced by expendo (“to pay out”).

• IPA^(key): /despenˈdeɾ/

despender (first-person singular present despendo, first-person singular preterite despendín, past participle despendido)
despender (first-person singular present despendo, first-person singular preterite despendim or despendi, past participle despendido, reintegrationist norm)

1. to spend, to expend
   • 1348, J. Méndez Pérez & al. (eds.), El monasterio de San Salvador de Chantada, Santiago de Compostela: I. Padre Sarmiento, page 322:

     aquelo pouco que ende habemos, os mesajeiros que por ello ban, cómeno todo e despéndenlo entre idas e veidas

     the little which we have there, the couriers that are send there for bringing it, they eat it and spend it back and forth

   Synonym: gastar

2. to distribute

   Synonym: distribuír

• despensa

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “despender”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “despender”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “despender”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “despender”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese despender, from Latin dispendere.

• Hyphenation: des‧pen‧der

despender (first-person singular present despendo, first-person singular preterite despendi, past participle despendido)

1. to spend, to expend

   Synonym: gastar

2. to distribute, to spread, to scatter

   Synonyms: distribuir, espalhar

3. to employ, to exercise, to use

   Synonyms: empregar, exercer, usar

• “despender”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “despender”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

despender (first-person singular present despendo, first-person singular preterite despendí, past participle despendido)

1. (archaic) to spend

• “despender”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025