put ons

A number of words in English involve the Latin root put, from the Latin putere, meaning to settle an account. It would seem these words must have some common factor buried in their current meaning.

• compute: together + consider (add up an account)
• deputy: apart + consider (devolve some authority)
• dispute: apart + think
• impute: in + think
• putative: considered
• repute: again + think