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Due

3 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means owed or expected to arrive or be paid at a particular time
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Stage 1 of 3
debere
Latin · ancient
"to owe"
to owe, with irregular past participle debitus
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Stage 2 of 3
deu
Old French · medieval
"something owed or expected"
carried into French for something owed or expected
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Stage 3 of 3
due
English · 1300s
"owed or expected at a particular time"
settled as the English word for something owed or expected at a particular time
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