debitus

debitus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of dēbeō.

Participle

dēbitus (feminine dēbita, neuter dēbitum); first/second-declension participle

1. owed

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	dēbitus	dēbita	dēbitum		dēbitī	dēbitae	dēbita
Genitive	dēbitī	dēbitae	dēbitī		dēbitōrum	dēbitārum	dēbitōrum
Dative	dēbitō		dēbitō		dēbitīs
Accusative	dēbitum	dēbitam	dēbitum		dēbitōs	dēbitās	dēbita
Ablative	dēbitō	dēbitā	dēbitō		dēbitīs
Vocative	dēbite	dēbita	dēbitum		dēbitī	dēbitae	dēbita

Descendants

• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *dēbitūra
  • → Albanian: detyrë
• → Italian: debito

References

• “debitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• debitus 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)
• debitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to show gratitude (in one's acts): gratiam alicui referre (meritam, debitam) pro aliqua re
    
  • (ambiguous) to die a natural death: debitum naturae reddere (Nep. Reg. 1)