dette
Middle English
/ˈdɛt(ə)/
noun
Definitions
- Goods or possessions owed to or due to another person; a debt.
- The state of debt; the condition one is when one has a debt or monetary obligation.
- Something which one is obliged to do by law, society, or belief:
- Something that one deserves (negatively); one's fate or punishment.
- (theology) Sin; acts which go against the dictates of a higher power.
- (law) An legal action in order to collect a money owed to one.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French dete derived from Latin dēbita.
Origin
Latin
dēbita
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antidebt English
- debt English
- debt-free English
- debt-ridden English
- debted English
- debtee English
- debtholder English
- debtless English
- debtlike English
- debtor English
- megadebt English
- nondebt English
- robo-debt English
- debita Latin
- dēbita Latin
- dēbitum Latin
- *gʰeh₁bʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- dettour Middle English
- detty Middle English
- dete Old French
- detour Old French
- débeda Galician
- dette Norman
- debte Middle French
- divida Old Portuguese
- devda Ladino