Translation
to make available, to place at somebody's disposal
Word origin
The root disponi comes from Latin disponere, to arrange or set out in order, from dis- (apart) plus ponere (to put). English dispose, disposal and disposition are the same word, and at your disposal preserves the Esperanto sense exactly.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- disponere
- English cognates
- dispose, disposal
Grammar
Irregular verb. A full conjugation table for irregular verbs is coming soon. For now, use a reference like Wordreference or RAE.
Examples
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The town made a hall available for the meeting.
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Can you let me have your car for one day?
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The library makes its books available to all students.
Decoding it, and the suffix is doing all the work.Disponi at rank 1,166 is to have something at your
disposal - to be the one who may use it. -- is the causative: it makes you
the one who brings the state about. So is to cause somebody else to
have a thing at their disposal, which is what English says in five words as to
make available or to place at somebody's disposal. One suffix, one word.
The family, and it is a neat demonstration of three affixes at once. you have the thing; you give somebody else the having;
disponebla at rank 2,025 describes the thing
that can be disposed of, which is available; and dispono is the state
itself, as in dispono, at your disposal, which is how a formal
Esperanto letter signs off. Four words, one root, no new vocabulary. The
-- and -- machinery underneath is set out in
igi and iĝi.
Against the near neighbours. Doni transfers
ownership; transfers only the use, and you expect the thing back.
Provizi is to supply, which implies the thing was
needed and is consumed - you an expedition with food, you
a room. i is the blunter cousin, to get something for somebody. In
official Esperanto - congress circulars, association reports - is
everywhere, because institutions lend rooms and equipment far more often than
they give them away.
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