different between debit vs arrear

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French debet, from Latin debitum (“what is owed, a debt”), neuter of debitus, past participle of debere (“to owe”); Doublet of debt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?b.?t/
• Rhymes: -?b?t

Noun

debit (countable and uncountable, plural debits)

1. In bookkeeping, an entry in the left hand column of an account.

   A cash sale is recorded as debit on the cash account and as credit on the sales account.

2. A sum of money taken out of a bank account. Thus called, because in bank's bookkeeping a cash withdrawal diminishes the amount of money held on the account, i.e. bank's debt to the customer.

Derived terms

• debit card

Related terms

• debt
• debitor
• debenture

Translations

See also

• credit

Verb

debit (third-person singular simple present debits, present participle debiting, simple past and past participle debited)

1. To make an entry on the debit side of an account.
2. To record a receivable in the bookkeeping.

Translations

Adjective

debit (not comparable)

1. of or relating to process of taking money from an account
2. of or relating to the debit card function of a debit card rather than its often available credit card function (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Antonyms

• credit

Derived terms

• debit card

Translations

Further reading

• debit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• debit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• betid, bidet, bited

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?deb?t?]
• Hyphenation: dé?bit

Etymology 1

• From English debit, from Middle French debet (Modern French débit), from Latin d?bitum (“what is owed, a debt”).
• Displaced earlier debet, which was loanword from Dutch debet.

Noun

debit (first-person possessive debitku, second-person possessive debitmu, third-person possessive debitnya)

1. (accounting) debit:
   1. In bookkeeping, an entry in the left hand column of an account.
   2. A sum of money taken out of a bank account. Thus called, because in bank's bookkeeping a cash withdrawal diminishes the amount of money held on the account, i.e. bank's debt to the customer.
2. (accounting) receivable: a debt owed, usually to a business, from the perspective of that business.

   Synonym: piutang

Alternative forms

• debet

Affixed terms

Compounds

Related terms

Etymology 2

Semantic loan from Dutch debiet (“discharge, flowrate”), from French débit (“flow, rate of flow, discharge”), from Latin d?bitum (“what is owed, a debt”).

Noun

debit (first-person possessive debitku, second-person possessive debitmu, third-person possessive debitnya)

1. (hydrology) discharge
2. (of fluid) flowrate

Compounds

Further reading

• “debit” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Romanian

Etymology

From French débit.

Noun

debit n (plural debite)

1. debit

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English arere, from Old French arere, ariere, from Vulgar Latin *ad retro (“to the rear”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?????/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Adverb

arrear (comparative more arrear, superlative most arrear)

1. (obsolete) Towards the rear, backwards. [14th-16th c.]
   • 1591, Edmund Spenser, Virgil's Gnat, ll. 465-8:

     She, (Ladie) having well before approoved / The feends to be too cruell and severe, / Observ'd th' appointed way, as her behooved, / Ne ever did her ey-sight turne arere [...].

2. (obsolete) Behind time; overdue. [15th-19th c.]
   • 1803, Edward Hyde East, Reports of cases Argued and determined in the Court of King's Bench, London 1814, vol. 3, p. 559:

     In case the annuity should be arrear for sixty days being lawfully demanded, then the trustee might enter upon the premises assigned [...].

Noun

arrear (plural arrears)

1. Work to be done, obligation.
   • November 4, 1866, James David Forbes, letter to E. C. Batten

     I have a large arrear of letters to write.

   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula

     My own work, with its manifold arrears, took me all day to clear off.
2. Unpaid debt.
3. That which is in the rear or behind.

Translations

Portuguese

Etymology

Possibly from a Vulgar Latin *arred?re (“arrange, provide”), from Gothic.

Verb

arrear (first-person singular present indicative arreio, past participle arreado)

1. (transitive) to harness (to place a harness on something)

   Synonym: aparelhar

Conjugation

Derived terms

• arreio

Spanish

Etymology

Possibly from a Vulgar Latin *arred?re (“arrange, provide”), from Gothic *???????????????? (*r?þs, “advice”). Cognate with English array. Less likely from arre +? -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /are?a?/, [a.re?a?]

Verb

arrear (first-person singular present arreo, first-person singular preterite arreé, past participle arreado)

1. to urge
2. to harness
3. to drive (cattle), herd

Conjugation

Further reading

• “arrear” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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