dete

See also: děte, dęte, and ɗete

Old French

Etymology

From Latin debita.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈde.tə/

Noun

dete oblique singular, f (oblique plural detes, nominative singular dete, nominative plural detes)

1. debt
   • circa 1250, Rutebeuf, Ci encoumence la vie de Sainte Elyzabel, fille au roi de Hongrie:

     Ele paioit por li la dete.

     She paid the debt for him.

Descendants

• Middle French: debte
  • French: dette
• → Middle English: dette, debte
  • English: debt

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian): dijéte

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *dětę, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to suck, suckle”).

Noun

déte n (Cyrillic spelling де́те)

1. child, kid

Declension

Declension of dete

	singular
nominative	déte
genitive	dèteta
dative	detetu
accusative	dete
vocative	dȇte
locative	detetu
instrumental	detetom

As opposed to other Slavic languages, in Serbo-Croatian dete does not have a plural – the collective noun deca is used instead.