debitum

Latin

Etymology

From dēbeō, dēhibeō (owe, have obligation).

Pronunciation

Noun

dēbitum n (genitive dēbitī); second declension

  1. A debt; something that is owed to another person or entity.
  2. An obligation.
  3. A rent, rental payment

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative dēbitum dēbita
Genitive dēbitī dēbitōrum
Dative dēbitō dēbitīs
Accusative dēbitum dēbita
Ablative dēbitō dēbitīs
Vocative dēbitum dēbita

Descendants

  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: deute
    • Old French: dete
    • Occitan: deuta, deute
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Romansch: daivet
  • Sardinian:
    • dépidu
  • Borrowings:

Participle

dēbitum

  1. inflection of dēbitus:
    1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
    2. 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)
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