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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

• Enter, Enter., enter, enter-, entre, terne, treen

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

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	rente	renten	renter	renterne
genitive	rentes	rentens	renters	renternes

Declension of rente

Derived terms

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

 

References

• “rente” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

rente

Wikipedia ^nl

Etymology

From Old French rente (1230–1231),^[1] cognate with Icelandic renta and Danish rente.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛn.tə/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ren‧te

Noun

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

1. interest, payment for credit

   Synonyms: intrest, interest

Derived terms

• erfrente
• hypotheekrente
• jaarrente
• lijfrente
• marktrente
• nulrente
• rentebeleid
• renteloos
• rentevoet

 

Related terms

• rendement
• renderen
• rentenier

 

Descendants

• → Caribbean Javanese: rènte
• → Indonesian: renten

References

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20090830174922/http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/sijs002chro01_01/sijs002chro01_01_0035.htm Nicoline van der Sijs, Chronologisch woordenboek, De ouderdom en herkomst van onze woorden en betekenissen

Anagrams

• teren

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

• rente viagère

Verb

rente

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

Further reading

• “rente”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• enter, entre, entré, terne

Latin

Participle

rente

1. ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of rēns

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

rente

Wikipedia ^no

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

• rentebærende
• rentefri
• rentesats

References

• “rente” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Anagrams

• enter, entre, entré, erten, ertne, -erten, terne, treen, trene

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

• rentefri
• rentesats

Etymology 2

Verb

rente

1. past of renna

References

• “rente” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Alternative forms

• rende (Poitou)

Etymology

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

Noun

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

1. income

Descendants

• French: rente
• Poitevin-Saintongeais: rende
• Walloon: rinte
• → Dutch: rente
• → English: rent
• → German: Rente
• → Old Spanish: renta
  • Spanish: renta

References

• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1985) “rendir”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 874
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “rĕddĕre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 10: R, page 175

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁẽ.t͡ʃi/ [ˈhẽ.t͡ʃi]

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

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁẽ.tɨ/

• 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

Venetian

Adjective

rente m or f (masculine and feminine plural renti)

1. near, nearby
2. next