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Dispose

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to get rid of something, or to arrange things in a particular way
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Stage 1 of 2
disponere
Latin · ancient
"to place apart, to arrange"
to place apart, to arrange, from dis- (apart) and ponere (to place)
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Stage 2 of 2
dispose
English · 1300s
"to arrange something, or to get rid of it"
settled as the English word for arranging something, or getting rid of it
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