different between rent vs rente

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?nt, IPA^(key): /??nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Etymology 1

From Middle English rent, rente, from Old English renta, from Old French rente and Medieval Latin renta, both from Vulgar Latin *rendere, from Latin reddere, present active infinitive of redd?.

Noun

rent (countable and uncountable, plural rents)

1. A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.

   I am asking £100 a week rent.
2. A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service.
3. (economics) A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.

4. An object for which rent is charged or paid.
5. (obsolete) Income; revenue.

   • [Bacchus] a wastor was and all his rent / In wine and bordel he dispent.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Finnish: ränttü

Translations

Verb

rent (third-person singular simple present rents, present participle renting, simple past and past participle rented)

1. (transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.

2. (transitive) To grant occupation in return for rent.

3. (transitive) To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.
4. (intransitive) To be leased or let for rent.

Translations

See also

• hire

Etymology 2

From Middle English renten (“to tear”). Variant form of renden.

Noun

rent (plural rents)

1. A tear or rip in some surface.
   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 10

     The brown paint on the door was so old that the naked wood showed between the rents.
2. A division or schism.
   • 2002, Michael B. Oren, Six Days of War: June 1967:

     […] the White House was considering sending Vice President Humphrey to Cairo to patch up the many rents in U.S.—Egyptian relations.

Translations

Verb

rent

1. simple past tense and past participle of rend

Adjective

rent (comparative more rent, superlative most rent)

1. That has been torn or rent; ripped; torn.

Anagrams

• tern, tren

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re??nt/, [??æ?nd?]

Adjective

rent

1. neuter singular of ren

Adverb

rent

1. purely (morally)
2. purely (excluding other possibility)
3. quite, completely

Derived terms

• gøre rent (“to clean”)
• rent ud (“point-blank”)

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?nt
• IPA^(key): /r?nt/

Verb

rent

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of rennen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of rennen

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

rent

1. neuter singular of ren

Adverb

rent

1. purely

Verb

rent

1. past participle of renne

References

• “ren” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

rent

1. past participle of renna

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re?nt/

Adjective

rent

1. absolute indefinite neuter form of ren.

Adverb

rent (comparative renare, superlative renast)

1. cleanly
2. purely

English

Etymology

From French rente

Noun

rente (plural rentes)

1. In France, interest payable by government on indebtedness; the bonds, shares, stocks, etc. that represent government indebtedness.

Anagrams

• Enter, Enter., enter, enter-, entre, terne, treen

Danish

Etymology

Via Middle Low German rente (“interest”) and Old French rente (“income”) from Latin reddita, past participle of redd? (“to give back”). Cognate with English rent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?nt?/, [??and??], [???nd??]
• Homophone: rendte

Noun

rente c (singular definite renten, plural indefinite renter)

1. interest (money paid by borrower to lender)

Inflection

Derived terms

References

• “rente” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From Old French rente (1230–1231), cognate with Icelandic renta and Danish rente.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?n.t?/
• Hyphenation: ren?te

Noun

rente f (plural rentes or renten, diminutive rentetje n)

1. interest, payment for credit.

Synonyms

• intrest, interest

Derived terms

• hypotheekrente
• jaarrente
• lijfrente
• marktrente
• nulrente
• rentebeleid
• rentevoet

Related terms

• renderen
• rentenier

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: renten

References

Anagrams

• teren

French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *rendita, alteration of the past participle form of Latin reddere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

rente f (plural rentes)

1. annuity; benefit
2. pension
3. (in the plural) private income

Derived terms

• rente viagère

Verb

rente

1. inflection of renter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “rente” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• enter, entre, entré, terne

Latin

Participle

rente

1. ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of r?ns

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Medieval Latin rendita and Old Norse renta

Noun

rente f or m (definite singular renta or renten, indefinite plural renter, definite plural rentene)

1. (finance) interest (paid or received)

Derived terms

• rentebærende
• rentefri
• rentesats

References

• “rente” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Medieval Latin rendita and Old Norse renta

Noun

rente f (definite singular renta, indefinite plural renter, definite plural rentene)

1. (finance) interest (paid or received)

Derived terms

• rentefri
• rentesats

Etymology 2

Verb

rente

1. past of renna

References

• “rente” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *rendita, from the past participle of *rend?/redd?.

Noun

rente f (oblique plural rentes, nominative singular rente, nominative plural rentes)

1. income

Descendants

• ? Dutch: rente
• ? English: rent
• French: rente
• ? German: Rente f

Portuguese

Adverb

rente (comparative mais rente superlative o mais rente)

1. close

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rente/, [?r?n?.t?e]

Verb

rente

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

Venetian

Adjective

rente m or f (masculine and feminine plural renti)

1. near, nearby
2. next