deure

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪørə/

deure

1. plural of deur

Inherited from Latin dēbēre (“owe”) (probably through a Vulgar Latin root *debĕre). Compare Occitan deure, dever, French devoir, Spanish deber.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈdɛw.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈdəw.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈdew.ɾe]

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• Rhymes: -ɛwɾe

deure m (plural deures)

1. duty, obligation

deure (first-person singular present dec, first-person singular preterite deguí, past participle degut); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/

1. (transitive) to owe
2. to have to (followed by an infinitive)

   Synonym: haver de

3. it can be assumed, it can be inferred, to be possible (followed by an infinitive)

While deu INFINITIVE as have to INFINTIVE of obligation is the general historical usage, nowadays in most of Central Catalan deu INFINITIVE has only the meaning of INFINTIVE can be supposed. Compare:

• Se'n va anar corrents, devia tenir pressa ― He ran away, perhaps he was in a hurry
• Se'n va anar corrents, havia de tenir pressa ― He ran away, he had to be in a hurry

• “deure”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “deure”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “deure” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “deure” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [deˈuː.rɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪eˈuː.re]

deūre

1. second-person singular present active imperative of deūrō

• dever

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin dēbēre (“to owe”) (probably through a Vulgar Latin root *debĕre).

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deure

1. to have to
2. to owe

• redeure

From Middle Dutch duere, variant of dōre, from Old Dutch duri, from Proto-Germanic *durz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer- (“doorway, door, gate”).

deure f

1. door