*SET-U

Lewis’s Elementary Latin Dictionary

dēbeo

Read this edition’s complete source entry.

Latinn3973Historical source · not a reviewed *SET-U verdictRead the source ↗

This edition’s origin note

for dehibeō; de + habeo

Original source wording, not an independently verified *SET-U conclusion.

The complete extracted entry

n3973

Historical source text, not a reviewed *SET-U analysis. Claims and terminology belong to this edition.

dēbeo uī, itus, ēre Source etymology: for dehibeō; de + habeo , to withhold, keep back : alqd tibi absenti: tibi hoc video non posse deberi, i. e. you will not consent to remain my creditor.—To owe, be in debt : illis quibus debui, T.: ut illi quam plurimi deberent, S.: qui se debere fateantur (i. e. debitores esse), Cs.: (argentum) Bacchidi, T.: pecuniam Cluvio: pecuniam pro domo: grandem pecuniam, S.: Quid si animam debet, is over head and ears in debt , T.: pecunia iamdiu debita: legioni frumentum deberi sciebat, Cs.—With acc, to owe, be under obligation to give, be bound to render : hoc tibi pro servitio, T.: ei res p. gratiam debet: patriae quid debeat, what are his duties , H.: dies Longa videtur opus debentibus, to laborers , H.: nil caelestibus, V.: Navis, quae debes Vergilium art responsible for , H.—With inf, to be bound, be under obligation, ought, must, should : ferre contra patriam arma debuerunt?: Africam sorte obtinere, Cs.: hoc rescribere, H.: summae se iniquitatis condemnari debere, si, etc., Cs.: dici beatus Ante obitum nemo debet, O.: Nec quā debebat (sc. amare), amabat, within the bounds of duty , O.—Pass, to be due, be owing : Veneri reliquum tempus deberi arbitrabatur: hoc nunc Laus illi debetur, H.— To be bound, be destined, be fated, owe by fate : fatis iuvenescere debent geniti, O.: Urbem cerno debere nepotes, are destined to found , O.: ventis ludibrium, H.: cui regnum Romanaque tellus Debentur, V.: Debemus morti nos nostraque, H.: Omnia debentur vobis, O.—Fig., to owe, be indebted for, have to thank for : beneficium Maximo: vobis omnia, Cs.: quantum cuique deberet, N.: Priami plurima natis, V.: fac me multis debere, am under obligations : tibi nos debere fatemur, Quod, etc., O.

Source locator viaf2845558.viaf001.xml entry n3973 (source key debeo), lines 12491–12553

This entry-text adaptation is available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Credit: Charlton T. Lewis · Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University, Perseus Digital Library. Changes: XML parsing, plain-text formatting and navigation. Original edition and digitization · Offer a source correction ↗

Where interpretation must slow down

  • Historical 1890 Latin dictionary, digitized by the Perseus Digital Library; not a current scholarly consensus or a newly reviewed SET-U analysis.
  • Explicit source etymology notes retain the dictionary's original claims and abbreviations. They are not asserted parent links, and not every entry supplies an origin.
  • Greek quotations in this particular source artifact use legacy Beta Code, preserved verbatim rather than silently converted into Greek Unicode.
  • The source's rare unresolved legacy entity tokens &acutemacr; and &cj; are retained literally. The original raw XML remains the authoritative transcription.
  • English glosses, cited examples and roots do not alone determine a word's contextual meaning. Missing ancestors in this source do not establish the limit of human knowledge.

An old root, gloss or concordance number does not determine the meaning of every later use. A word’s origin and its modern meaning are different questions.

This page does not invent a manuscript attestation, a sound-change sequence, a modern scholarly verdict or a complete ancestor tree. Missing detail is a limit of this source record, not necessarily a limit of scholarship.

Find other records with this spelling →

Edition, rights and traceability

An Elementary Latin Dictionary (1890) — Perseus Digital Library
Charlton T. Lewis · Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University
1890 American Book Company edition; pinned Perseus XML digitization

CC-BY-SA-4.0 ↗ · Perseus digitized text and SET-U's parsed/reformatted source records, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0; no claim over unrelated SET-U material

Charlton T. Lewis, An Elementary Latin Dictionary (New York, Cincinnati and Chicago: American Book Company, 1890). Digital text: Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/), gift in the name of Carol F. Ross. Source: https://github.com/PerseusDL/lexica/blob/1c34cdf756c63cf37db61bd366d733431dbd7aa0/CTS_XML_TEI/perseus/pdllex/lat/viaf2845558/viaf001/viaf2845558.viaf001.xml. SET-U removes XML presentation markup, decodes known character entities, adds paragraph/etymology labels, and preserves source Greek Beta Code and unresolved legacy tokens. These reformatted records are available under CC BY-SA 4.0, without additional restrictions or warranty. No textual corrections have been made; any future corrections must be offered to Perseus. No endorsement is implied.

The full extracted entry is rendered as plain text. Formatting and navigation are added by *SET-U; source wording is not silently rewritten as new analysis.

Original entry or artifact ↗Source edition and credits ↗Acquisition and rights ledger
Machine-source audit fields
Source locator
viaf2845558.viaf001.xml entry n3973 (source key debeo), lines 12491–12553
Source record SHA-256
40ebcf9c9ab4283f9b2a4806785fa1369066171899ece91bb5aa52eb3ea48e47
Records SHA-256
943b6b0021062807c10794529aea7016be060527c60210a657194ebeafb05a30
Published snapshot
08459e3f19dbdebdebf2441365ddd2b30b0cd5e6290cdc5a8e57114df35287cc
Acquired
2026-11-05T10:53:40.008Z · acquisition date, not first attestation
Parser
perseus-lewis-elementary-1
  • Source artifact ↗ · 705 bytes11f2e61a2514e75979798e42e75a449d8cf189340ebd0eeacc95235c3c352635
  • Source artifact ↗ · 18,625 bytesccf0e8ce183761bf82700126cc45a4e907b2cede024e65e3fef5c2338b9b7063
  • Source artifact ↗ · 14,537,285 bytesf6087b2fcfc0d10d4a74a946bcbb45ded41b1e68ce112a39eb5b95817475195e
  • Source artifact ↗ · 6,327 bytes84cb3710463ea1bd80e6db3cf31efcb19345429a3bafbefc9ecff71d0a64c21c