dispense

The story

1. Latin · derived fromdispēnsāre“to weigh out, pay out, distribute, regulate, manage, control, dispense”
2. Old French · derived fromdispenser
3. English todaydispense

From Middle English, from Old French dispenser, from Latin dispēnsāre (“to weigh out, pay out, distribute, regulate, manage, control, dispense”), frequentative of dispendere (“to weigh out”), from dis- (“apart”) + pendere (“to weigh”).