debitum

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) 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

• Catalan: deute
• English: debit, debt
• Dalmatian: debeta
• French: dette
• Galician: débito, débeda
• Italian: debito
• Occitan: deuta, deute

• Old Galician-Portuguese: divida, devida, deveda
• Portuguese: débito, dívida
• Romansch: daivet
• Russian: де́бет (débet)
• Sardinian: dépidu
• Spanish: deuda, debdo

Participle

(deprecated template usage) dēbitum

1. nominative neuter singular of dēbitus
2. accusative masculine singular of dēbitus
3. accusative neuter singular of dēbitus
4. vocative neuter singular of dēbitus

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)