Old French

Noun

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.

Descendants

• English: debt (borrowed)
• French: dette

Portuguese

Verb

dete

1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of deter
2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of deter

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian): dijéte

Etymology

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

Noun

déte n ‎(Cyrillic spelling де́те)

1. child, kid

Declension

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