dete

See also: děte, dęte, ɗete, and Dete

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *depta, contracted from Latin debita. The early contraction possibly also underlies in Old Occitan deuta, whereas Old Spanish debda was contracted at a later stage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈde.tə/

Noun

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

1. debt
   • c. 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
• → Italian: detta
• → Middle English: dette, debte
  • English: debt

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• dijéte (Ijekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dětę, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to suck, suckle”).

Noun

déte n (Cyrillic spelling де́те, relational adjective dèčjī)

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.