🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

insolvente

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /in.solˈben.te/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Insolvent/ɪnˈsɒlvənt/
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"El deudor fue declarado insolvente por el juez."

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2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Unable to pay debts owed when they fall due.

    "The company was declared insolvent after failing to secure emergency funding from its investors."
As noun
  1. 1

    A person or entity that is unable to pay their debts.

    "The court appointed a trustee to manage the assets of the insolvent."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin word 'insolventem', formed by the assimilation of the negative prefix 'in-' (not) with 'solventem', the accusative of 'solvens', present participle of 'solvere' (to loosen, pay). It entered the English language in the late 16th century, shifting from general inability to free oneself from obligation to the specific financial sense of lacking funds to pay debts.

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