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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

endividamento

Pronunciation / Transliteration: endividamento

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Indebtedness/ɪnˈdɛt.ɪd.nəs/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #8500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O endividamento das famílias aumentou este ano."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    The state of being in debt.

    "The company struggled to manage its growing level of indebtedness."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Middle English word 'indetted', combining the prefix 'in-' (into, in) with 'dette' (debt), borrowed from Old French 'dete' and ultimately from the Latin 'debitum'. Over centuries, it evolved from signifying a moral or social obligation to primarily denoting a financial state of owing money.

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