dettour
Middle English
/ˈdɛtur/
noun
Definitions
- One who is indebted to another financially, for their help, etc.
- One who must atone for their wrongs against another.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French detour derived from Latin debitor (debtor) affix from Middle English dette.
Origin
Middle English
dette
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- codebtor English
- debitor English
- debt English
- debtor English
- debtorship English
- homedebtor English
- debitor Latin
- dēbitor, dēbitōrem, debitor Latin
- Debitor German
- débiteur French
- debitor Norwegian Bokmål
- debitor Norwegian Nynorsk
- dette Middle English
- detty Middle English
- debitor Danish
- debitor Czech
- dete Old French
- detour Old French
- datorie Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- detteur Norman
- debituar Dalmatian