Etymology

expend

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Today it means: To consume, exhaust (some resource). Full definition →

Latin expendō
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The story

  1. Latin · borrowed fromexpendō“to weigh; to pay out”
  2. English todayexpend

Borrowed from Latin expendō (“to weigh; to pay out”). Doublet of spend.

Words from the same roots

Latinexpendō all →

expense

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