rent
English
/ɹɛnt/
noun
Definitions
- A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.
- A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service.
- (economics) A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.
- An object for which rent is charged or paid.
- (obsolete) Income; revenue.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English rent inherited from Old English renta derived from Old French rente (income) derived from Latin renta, *rendere, reddere.
Origin
Latin
reddere
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Renthead English
- antirent English
- antirentism English
- back English
- charge English
- forerent English
- house English
- life English
- liferent English
- liferenter English
- man English
- manrent English
- nonrentable English
- nonrental English
- overrent English
- profit from possession of a valuable right English
- quasi-rent English
- quit English
- quitrent English
- rent-free English
- rent-seeking English
- rentability English
- rentable English
- rental English
- rentback English
- rentcharge English
- rentee English
- renter English
- renterer English
- renthouse English
- rentor English
- rerent English
- right English
- seeking English
- sub-renter English
- subrent English
- unrent English
- unrentable English
- ränttü Finnish
- *rendere Latin
- *rendere, *rendo Latin
- *rendita Latin
- reddere Latin
- reddita Latin
- renta Latin
- rendere Italian
- rente Dutch, Flemish
- rente, renten Dutch, Flemish
- rédonner French
- rentável Portuguese
- レンタル Japanese
- renta Old English
- rent Middle English
- rendre Old French
- rente Old French
- renda Catalan, Valencian
- retre Catalan, Valencian
- reda Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- rhent Welsh
- renda Old Portuguese
- rente Middle Low German
- rèndre Occitan
- man
- life
- quit
- back
- right
- house
- unrent
- rentee
- rentor
- rerent
- renter
- charge
- rental
- subrent
- seeking
- manrent
- rentback
- overrent
- renterer
- forerent
- rentable
- Renthead
- liferent
- antirent
- quitrent
- renthouse
- nonrental
- rent-free
- unrentable
- quasi-rent
- sub-renter
- rentcharge
- liferenter
- nonrentable
- antirentism
- rentability
- rent-seeking
- profit from possession of a valuable right