débeda

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin dēbita, plural of dēbitum, from dēbitus (“owed”), from dēbeō (“I owe”). Cognate with Portuguese dívida and Spanish deuda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdebeda/ [ˈd̪e.β̞e.ð̞ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ebeda
• Hyphenation: dé‧be‧da

Noun

débeda m (plural débedas)

1. debt
   • 1265, A. Martínez Salazar, editor, Documentos gallegos de los siglos XIII al XVI, A Coruña: Casa de la Misericordia, page 49:

     que ní una cousa nõ fica por pagar da dicta deueda

     that nothing is left to pay of said debt

Related terms

• debedor
• deber

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “dévida”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “deueda”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “débeda”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “débeda”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “débeda”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN