debitus

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Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of dēbeō.

Participle

dēbitus (feminine dēbita, neuter dēbitum); first/second-declension participle

  1. owed

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Descendants

  • Vulgar Latin: *dēbitūra
  • Italian: debito

References

  • debitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • debitus 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)
  • debitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to show gratitude (in one's acts): gratiam alicui referre (meritam, debitam) pro aliqua re
    • (ambiguous) to die a natural death: debitum naturae reddere (Nep. Reg. 1)