different between deputy vs debite

English

Alternative forms

• deputee (archaic)

Etymology

From French député, from Late Latin deputatus (“appointed”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?pj?ti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?pj?ti/, /?d?p?ti/

Noun

deputy (plural deputies)

1. One appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for them, in their name or their behalf; a substitute in office

   Synonyms: lieutenant, representative, delegate, vice, vicegerent

2. (mining, historical) A person employed to install and remove props, brattices, etc. and to clear gas, for the safety of the miners.
3. (France): A member of the Chamber of Deputies, formerly called Corps Législatif
4. (Ireland): a member of Dáil Éireann, or the title of a member of Dáil Éireann. (Normally capitalised in both cases)

   Eamon Ryan is a deputy in the Dáil.

   At today's meeting, Deputy Ryan will speak on local issues.

5. (United States): a law enforcement officer who works for the county sheriff's office; a deputy sheriff or sheriff's deputy; the entry level rank in such an agency

   The sheriff's deputies took the suspect into custody.

   Deputy Jones was promoted to corporal today.

Usage notes

Deputy is used in combination with the names of various executive officers, to denote an assistant empowered to act in their name; as, deputy collector, deputy marshal, deputy sheriff. In the British coal mining industry, the word referred to as a deputy overman, which was roughly akin to a foreman in other industries.

Synonyms

• substitute
• representative
• legate
• delegate
• envoy
• agent
• See also Thesaurus:deputy

Hyponyms

• vice admiral
• vice director
• vicegerent
• vice president

Derived terms

• deputy first minister
• deputy prime minister

Translations

See also

• vice-

Verb

deputy (third-person singular simple present deputies, present participle deputying, simple past and past participle deputied)

1. (informal, nonstandard) to deputise

Further reading

• deputy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• deputy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “deputy” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

Alteration of depute.

Noun

debite (plural debites)

1. (obsolete) A deputy; an official.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XXVII:

     Jesus stode before the debite, and the debite axed him, saynge: Arte thou the kynge of the iwes?

Anagrams

• betide

Interlingua

Participle

debite

1. past participle of deber

Italian

Adjective

debite f pl

1. feminine plural of debito

Latin

Participle

d?bite

1. vocative masculine singular of d?bitus

References

• debite in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Verb

debite

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of debitar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of debitar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of debitar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of debitar

Spanish

Verb

debite

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of debitar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of debitar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of debitar.