different between hypothecate vs hypothec

English

Etymology

From Latin hypothecatus, past participle of hypotheco, hypothecare. This was in turn derived from Ancient Greek ??????? (hupoth?k?, “pledge”), from the verb ????????? (hupotíth?mi, “to pledge as surety”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /h???p???ke?t/

Verb

hypothecate (third-person singular simple present hypothecates, present participle hypothecating, simple past and past participle hypothecated)

1. (transitive) To pledge (something) as surety for a loan; to pawn, mortgage.
   • 1943, Raymond Chandler, The High Window, Penguin 2005, p. 12:

     ‘My husband, Jasper Murdock, provided in his will that no part of his collection might be sold, loaned or hypothecated during my lifetime.’

2. (politics, Britain) To designate a new tax or tax increase for a specific expenditure

Usage notes

• Sometimes wrongly used in place of the word hypothesize.

Derived terms

Related terms

• hypothec

Translations

English

Etymology

From Latin hypoth?ca (“pledge, mortgage”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (hupoth?k?, “warning, pledge”).

Noun

hypothec (usually uncountable, plural hypothecs)

1. (law) In Scotland, a landlord's right over the stocking (cattle, implements, etc.), and crops of his tenant, as security for payment of rent.
2. (colloquial) Everything; the whole lot.

   ...saddle and all, the whole hypothec turned round and grovelled in the dust below the donkey’s belly.

Related terms

• hypothecate

References

• Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879) by Robert Louis Stevenson