dever

From Old Spanish [Term?], from Latin debeo, debere.

dever (Latin spelling)

1. to have to
2. should
3. must

dever m (Latin spelling)

1. duty

• deure

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin dēbēre, present active infinitive of dēbeō (“I owe”).

dever

1. to have to
2. to owe

From Latin dēbēre, present active infinitive of dēbeō (“I owe; I must”).

• IPA^(key): /de.ˈβeɾ/

dever

1. must; to have to

• Fala: debel
• Galician: deber
• Portuguese: dever

From Old Portuguese dever, from Latin dēbēre, present active infinitive of dēbeō (“I owe”).

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /dɨˈveɾ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /deˈveɾ/

dever (first-person singular present indicative devo, past participle devido)

1. should (indicates that an action is considered by the speaker to be obligatory)
2. ought (indicates that the subject of the sentence has some obligation to execute the sentence predicate.)
3. will likely (indicates that the subject of the sentence is likely to execute the sentence predicate.)
4. owe (to be in debt.)

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:dever.

dever m (plural deveres)

1. duty (that which one is morally or legally obligated to do)

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:dever.

• (Ijekavian): djȅver
• (Ikavian): dȉver
• (Montenegrin): đȅver

From Proto-Slavic *děverь, from Proto-Indo-European *dayh₂wḗr. Compare Russian деверь (deverʹ).

• IPA^(key): /dêver/
• Hyphenation: de‧ver

dȅver m (Cyrillic spelling де̏вер)

1. brother-in-law (one's husband's brother)

dever

1. Obsolete spelling of deber