Etymograph

English

foredispose

From fore- + dispose.

Formed from fore- + dispose

Proto-Indo-European *per- ‘before, formerly’

Proto-Germanic *fura- ‘before, in front of, for’

Proto-West Germanic *forē- ‘before, in front of, fore-, pre-’

English fore-

Proto-Indo-European *tḱey- ‘to cultivate’

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Proto-Italic *pozinō

Latin pōnō ‘place, put’

Latin dispōnō ‘to dispose, distribute or arrange’

French disposer ‘to organize, to arrange, to distribute in a…’

English dispose

Today it means

verb To bestow beforehand.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / foredispose