Ladino

Verb

dever ‎(Latin spelling)

1. to have to
2. should
3. must

Noun

dever m ‎(Latin spelling)

1. duty

Occitan

Etymology

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

Verb

dever

1. to have to
2. to owe

Conjugation

Old Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.ˈβeɾ/

Verb

dever

1. must; to have to

Descendants

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

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /dɨˈveɾ/

Verb

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.)

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:dever.

Conjugation

Noun

dever m (plural deveres)

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

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:dever.

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

dȅver m ‎(Cyrillic spelling де̏вер)

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

Declension