Help with the word "debiture",what language is it, etc?

Question

I started working for some accountants, and asked what "dr" stood for, since "debit" has no "r" in it, was it from a latin-based word, they didn't know. Then, I said, "Isn't there a word, "debiture",they said there was no such word. I came home, and saw that it was not in the dictionary, but on the computer, I came up with it in an English,(American)article about workman's comp.-SO it used in America,,and I saw it in a "Latin to English" learning game....so that insinuates that it is Latin...BUT I also saw it in some French and Spanish(or Italian)website listings....so what the heck is it?and why doesn't the English dictionary recognize it, if politicians are using the word in a bill for workman's compensation...?(along with the word "additure") THANKS--p.s. Anybody remember what c/ means in Latin that makes it mean "with"?

Answer 1

Debenture is the word. Some people misspell it as debiture.
(And in my experience, many politicians are abysmal spellers.)

Debenture is derived from the Latin verb debere, which means "to owe." In Latin, debentur (without the E) literally means "are owing."

Latin is the basis for other Romance languages (get it.... Roman), so it is unsurprising that French and Spanish have words derived from (or precisely the same as) debenture.

Oh, and the Latin word for "with" is c*u*m. (I had to put in the asterisks because this website thinks that word is obscene because of certain English slang connotations.)