dete

From Latin debita.

• IPA^(key): /ˈde.tə/

dete 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.

• Middle English: dette, debte (borrowed)
  • English: debt
• Middle French: debte
  • French: dette

• (Ijekavian): dijéte

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

déte n (Cyrillic spelling де́те)

1. child, kid

This word has no plural, but the collective noun dèca is used instead.