rente

See also: Rente, renté, and rentę

English

Etymology

From French rente.

Noun

rente (plural rentes)

  1. In France, interest payable by government on indebtedness; the bonds, shares, stocks, etc. that represent government indebtedness.
  2. Obsolete spelling of rent.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rente”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

Via Middle Low German rente (interest) and Old French rente (income) from Latin reddita, past participle of reddō (to give back). Cognate with English rent.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rɛntə/, [ˈʁand̥ə], [ˈʁɑnd̥ə]
  • Homophone: rendte

Noun

rente c (singular definite renten, plural indefinite renter)

  1. interest (money paid by borrower to lender)
    med renter og renters rente
    with interest, as well as interest on the increase in debt caused hereby (provided the interest is not paid, but added to the debt)

Declension

Declension of rente
common
gender
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative rente renten renter renterne
genitive rentes rentens renters renternes

Derived terms

  • bankrente
  • indlånsrente
  • markedsrente
  • obligationsrente
  • realrente
  • renteforhøjelse
  • rentenedsættelse
  • rentestigning
  • udlånsrente

References

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch rente, from Old French rente; cognate with Icelandic renta and Danish rente.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈrɛn.tə/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: ren‧te

Noun

rente f (plural rentes or renten, diminutive rentetje n)

  1. interest, payment for credit
    Synonym: interest

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Caribbean Javanese: rènte
  • Indonesian: renten

References

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French rente, from Early Medieval Latin rendita, from Late Latin rendere, from Latin reddere.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁɑ̃t/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑ̃t

Noun

rente f (plural rentes)

  1. annuity; benefit
  2. pension
  3. (in the plural) private income

Derived terms

Verb

rente

  1. inflection of renter:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

Anagrams

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch rente.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈrɛntə/ [ˈren̪.t̪ə]
  • Rhymes: -ɛntə
  • Syllabification: ren‧te

Noun

rèntê (plural rente-rente)

  1. alternative form of renten

Derived terms

Further reading

Latin

Participle

rente

  1. ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of rēns

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Early Medieval Latin rendita and Old Norse renta.

Noun

rente f or m (definite singular renta or renten, indefinite plural renter, definite plural rentene)

  1. (finance) interest (paid or received)

Derived terms

References

Anagrams

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Early Medieval Latin rendita and Old Norse renta.

Noun

rente f (definite singular renta, indefinite plural renter, definite plural rentene)

  1. (finance) interest (paid or received)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

rente

  1. past of renna

References

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Early Medieval Latin rendita, from the past participle of Late Latin rendere.

Noun

rente oblique singularf (oblique plural rentes, nominative singular rente, nominative plural rentes)

  1. income

Descendants

References

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Latin radens

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈʁẽ.t͡ʃi/ [ˈhẽ.t͡ʃi]
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈʁẽ.t͡ʃi/ [ˈχẽ.t͡ʃi]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈʁẽ.te/ [ˈhẽ.te]

  • Rhymes: -ẽtɨ, -ẽt͡ʃi
  • Hyphenation: ren‧te

Adverb

rente (comparable, comparative mais rente, superlative o mais rente)

  1. close
    • 1995, José Saramago, Ensaio sobre a cegueira, Caminho:
      A mulher saiu sem dizer palavra, nem adeus, nem até logo, segue pelo corredor deserto, passa rente à porta da primeira camarata, []
      The woman left without saying a word, not even goodbye or see you, continued along the deserted hallway, passed close to the door of the first dormitory, []

Etymology 2

Verb

rente

  1. inflection of rentar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈrente/ [ˈrẽn̪.t̪e]
  • Rhymes: -ente
  • Syllabification: ren‧te

Verb

rente

  1. inflection of rentar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Venetan

Adjective

rente m or f (masculine and feminine plural renti)

  1. near, nearby
  2. next