owe Copy link • owe: dēbeo, 2 (gen. term): to o. money for anything, pecuniam pro aliqua re d., Cic. Ph. 2, 29, 71: to pay the debts you o., dissolvere quae debes, Ter. Ph. 4, 3, 51. Fig.: to owe any one gratitude, gratiam alicui d., Cic. Ph. 2, 11, 27: to o. a great deal to any one, alicui plurimum d., Caes. B. G. 5, 27. See also indebted. Phr.: to o. money, in aere alieno esse, aere alieno laborare, etc. (v. debt): to acknowledge that one o.s something to some one, alicui aliquid acceptum referre, Cic. Phil. 2, 5, extr.: I o.d him nothing (was under no obligation), obligatus ei nihil eram, id. Fam. 6, 11.
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.