Pronounced: BRAWD-side, noun
Notes: There was one meaning I did not know
Yesterday’s word
The word debenture is “a certificate acknowledging a debt”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1400s
Background / Comments
As I noted yesterday, I had two errors regarding this word: first, I thought it was pronounced DEB-en-churr, and second, I thought the word meant a debt itself instead of the certificate of the debt. I imagine we could call a debenture an “IOU”. In any event, our word came from the Latin word debentur (they are due/owing). This word was typically the first word in early certificates of indebtedness. It comes from the Latin word debere (to owe).
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