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debt
English
Alternative forms
- dette (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English dette, dett, borrowed from Old French dete (French dette), from Medieval Latin d?bita, from Latin d?bitum (“what is owed, a debt, a duty”), neuter of d?bitus, perfect passive participle of d?be? (“I owe”), contraction of *dehibe? (“I have from”), from de (“from”) + habe? (“I have”). Doublet of debit.
The unpronounced "b" in the modern English spelling is a Latinisation from the Latin etymon d?bitum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?t/
- Rhymes: -?t
- Homophone: death (with th-stopping)
Noun
debt (countable and uncountable, plural debts)
- An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another.
- The state or condition of owing something to another.
- (finance) Money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result of a loan or other financial transaction.
- (law) An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due.
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Derived terms
Related terms
- debit
- debitor
- debtor
- indebted
Translations
See also
- owe
Further reading
- debt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- debt in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Middle English
Noun
debt
- Alternative form of dette
debt From the web:
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- what debts are forgiven at death
- what debts are not discharged in bankruptcy
- what debts are forgiven when you die
- what debt to equity ratio is good
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- what debt ratio for mortgage
- what debts are included in dti
dest
English
Noun
dest (plural dests)
- Abbreviation of destination.
Anagrams
- ETDs, STED, STed, TEDs, Teds, estd, estd., sted, teds
Northern Kurdish
Etymology
From Proto-Iranian *jástah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *???ástas, from Proto-Indo-European *??óstos (“hand”), from *??es-. Cognate with Persian ???? (dast), Avestan ????????????????????? (zasta) and Sanskrit ???? (hasta).
Noun
dest m
- hand
Welsh
Alternative forms
- daethost (literary)
- delest (colloquial)
- desest (colloquial)
- dethest (colloquial)
- doist (colloquial)
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /d?sd/, [d?st]
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /de?sd/, [de?st], /d?sd/, [d?st]
Verb
dest
- (colloquial) second-person singular preterite of dod
Mutation
Zazaki
Etymology
Compare Persian ???? (dast)
Noun
dest ?
- hand
dest From the web:
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- what destroys the ozone layer
- what destroys pathogens
- what destroyed krypton
- what destroyed the dinosaurs
- what destroyed the mayan empire
- what destroyed the roman empire
- what destroys collagen
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