Patch

Morpheme

Patch

Type

bound base

Denotation

send, expedite, hasten

Etymology

Spanish despachar and/or Italian dispacciare; of unknown origin but possibly from either (1) Vulgar Latin *pactāre, *pactiare or (2) Latin -pedicāre, from pedica, from pēs

Evidence

despatch, despatched, despatcher, despatches, despatchful, despatching, dispatch, dispatchability, dispatchable, dispatched, dispatchee, dispatcher, dispatches, dispatchful, dispatching, multidispatch, redespatch, redispatch, undispatch, undispatched

See Also

Peach

Homographs

Patch, Patch