From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Etymology
The [verb] is [1425], in [Middle English], the [adjective] from 1606 to 1765;
from [en], from [en], [perfect] [passive] [participle] of [la] (see [en] and
[en]), also written [la], from [la] + [la]. [en], now [obsolete].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To drive away, disperse .
2. * AUGUST 1773 , [James Cook] , _journal entry_
3. *: I soon DISSIPATED his fears.
4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1817 | author=w:William Hazlitt | title=The Round Table
|passage=The extreme tendency of civilization is to DISSIPATE all intellectual
energy.}}
1. [en] To use up or waste ; squander .
2. * [passage=The vast wealth [...] was in three years DISSIPATED .]
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1931 | author=w:F. Scott Fitzgerald | title=w:Babylon Revisited
|passage=So much for the effort and ingenuity of Montmartre. All the catering
to vice and waste was on an utterly childish scale, and he suddenly realized
the meaning of the word " DISSIPATE"—to DISSIPATE into thin air; to make
nothing out of something.}}
1. * [en]
2. [en] To vanish by dispersion .
3. [en] To cause energy to be lost through its conversion to heat.
4. * [en]
5. * [en]
6. [en] To be dissolute in conduct .
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|dissipater|dissipator|dissipatory }}
**** Related terms
- [en]
**** Translations
[disperse]
[to drive away]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Italian: [it]
[trans-bottom]
[to use up or waste]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl] ; [nl] , [nl]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Ido: [io]
- Irish: [ga]
[trans-bottom]
[to vanish]
- Dutch: [nl]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Maori: [mi]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- French: [2,3] [fr]
- Ido: [2] [io] , [3] [io]
- Kannada: [kn]
[trans-bottom]
*** Adjective
[en-adj] [en]
1. dissipated
*** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]
- [R:Lexico]
** Italian
*** Etymology 1
**** Verb
[it]
1. [it]
*** Etymology 2
**** Participle
[it]
1. [it]
** Latin
*** Verb
[la]
1. [la]