due
English
/djuː/, /du/, /dʒʉː/
adj
Definitions
- Owed or owing.
- Appropriate.
- Scheduled; expected.
- Having reached the expected, scheduled, or natural time.
- Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.
- On a direct bearing, especially for the four points of the compass
Etymology
Derived from Middle English dewe derived from Old French deu, deü (due) derived from Latin dēbēre (must), habeō (have, hold, possess, keep, I have, own) root from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ- (take, grab, hold).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*gʰeh₁bʰ-
Gloss
take, grab, hold
Concept
Semantic Field
Possession
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bill English
- duebill English
- dueful English
- dueness English
- light English
- light due English
- underdue English
- undue English
- undueness English
- unduly English
- *aveo Latin
- *habunt Latin
- abhibeo Latin
- adhibeo Latin
- antehabeo Latin
- cohibeo Latin
- debeo Latin
- debitum Latin
- diribeo Latin
- duo Latin
- dēbita Latin
- dēbitum Latin
- dēbēre Latin
- exhibeo Latin
- exhibitus Latin
- habeō Latin
- habilis Latin
- habilitās Latin
- habitus Latin
- inhibeo Latin
- inhibitus Latin
- perhibeo Latin
- posthabeo Latin
- praebeo Latin
- praehibeo Latin
- prohibeo Latin
- redhibeo Latin
- dovere Italian
- devoir French
- deber Spanish, Castilian
- *(s)kep- Proto-Indo-European
- *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European
- *gʰeh₁bʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *gʰh₁bʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- dēaw Old English
- gafeluc Old English
- dewe Middle English
- dout Middle English
- duely Middle English
- duete Middle English
- gabháil Irish
- aveir Old French
- avoir Old French
- deu, deü Old French
- deveir Old French
- devoir Old French
- doute Old French
- deure Catalan, Valencian
- avea Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- գօտի Old Armenian
- argaib Old Irish
- congaib Old Irish
- dú Old Irish
- fo·gaib Old Irish
- foácaib Old Irish
- gabul Old Irish
- indocbál Old Irish
- turcbál Old Irish
- dùth Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- aver Old Portuguese
- dever Old Portuguese
- *gabaglā Proto-Celtic
- *gablā Proto-Celtic
- *gabyeti Proto-Celtic
- *wereti Proto-Celtic
- amu Aromanian
- deure Occitan
- dever Occitan
- *habēō Proto-Italic
- dovê Friulian
- aver Old Occitan
- aver Old Spanish
- aer Venetian
- aver Venetian
- avéi Ligurian
- dovar Dalmatian
- dovei Ladin
- avêr Franco-Provençal
- avèj Piedmontese
- avêr Emilian