debitum

Latin

Etymology

From dēbeō, dēhibeō (“owe, have obligation”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdeː.bi.tum/, [ˈd̪eːbɪt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈde.bi.tum/, [ˈd̪ɛːbit̪um]

Noun

dēbitum n (genitive dēbitī); second declension

1. A debt; something that is owed to another person or entity.
2. An obligation.
3. A rent, rental payment

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dēbitum	dēbita
Genitive	dēbitī	dēbitōrum
Dative	dēbitō	dēbitīs
Accusative	dēbitum	dēbita
Ablative	dēbitō	dēbitīs
Vocative	dēbitum	dēbita

Related terms

• dēbeō
• dēbitiō
• dēbitor
• dēbitrix

Descendants

• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: deute
  • Old French: dete
    • French: dette
    • → Middle English: dette
      • English: debt
  • Occitan: deuta, deute
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: divida, devida, deveda
    • Portuguese: dívida
    • Galician: débeda
  • Spanish: deuda, deudo
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Romansch: daivet
• Sardinian:
  • dépidu
• Borrowings:
  • → Dalmatian: debeta
  • → French: débit
    • → Romanian: debit
  • → Galician: débito
  • → Italian: debito
    • → Sicilian: dèbbitu
  • → Middle French: debet
    • → English: debit
    • → Russian: де́бет (débet)
  • → Portuguese: débito

Participle

dēbitum

1. inflection of dēbitus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

References

• “debitum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “debitum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• debitum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• debitum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to die a natural death: debitum naturae reddere (Nep. Reg. 1)