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Latin
Etymology
From dēbeō, dēhibeō (“owe, have obligation”).
Pronunciation
Noun
dēbitum n (genitive dēbitī); second declension
- A debt; something that is owed to another person or entity.
- An obligation.
- A rent, rental payment
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Related terms
Descendants
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Sardinian:
- Borrowings:
Participle
dēbitum
- inflection of dēbitus:
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
- accusative masculine singular
References
- “debitum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “debitum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- debitum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- debitum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to die a natural death: debitum naturae reddere (Nep. Reg. 1)