OWE Copy link • OWErem alicui debere. To owe money, i. e., be in debt, in aere alieno esse: to owe much to anybody (figuratively), alicui maximam debere gratiam: to owe one’s life to anybody, alterius beneficio vivere. Owing = Due; a debt or sum of money owing to me, nomen (general term), or pecunia credita: debts owing to me, quae in nominibus sunt; nomina: to call in debts owe to me, nomina exigere: to be owing, in nominibus esse: to have large sums of money owing to him, grandem pecuniam in nominibus habere. TO BE OWING TO, oriri or exoriri ab aliqua re; emanare or fluere de or ex aliqua re; proficisci ab aliqua re (to have anything for its source or origin): fieri, effici, sequi, or consequi ex aliqua re (to be the consequence of): It is owe to them that the populace was excited, eorum opera plebs concitata est: their introduction into the Senate was owing to him, ejus beneficio in senatum venerunt: all this is owing to you, vestra culpa hoc accidit: it is not owing to me (= my fault) that, etc., non fit meo vitio ut, etc.: it was not owing to me that, etc., non stetit per me, ut, etc.; non impedivi, quin, etc.: it was all owing to him that, etc., stetit per eum, quominus etc.