🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

hipoteca

Pronunciation / Transliteration: i.poˈte.ka

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Mortgage/ˈmɔːr.ɡɪdʒ/
nounverbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #1450 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Pagatamos la hipoteca cada mes."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A legal agreement by which a bank, building society, or other creditor lends money at interest in exchange for taking title of the debtor's property, with the condition that the conveyance of title becomes void upon the payment of the debt.

    "They took out a thirty-year mortgage to buy their first home."
As verb
  1. 1

    To convey or pledge property as security for the payment of a debt or loan.

    "He had to mortgage his house to pay off his business debts."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle English in the late 14th century, coming from Old French 'mort gage' meaning 'dead pledge'. It combined 'mort' (dead) and 'gage' (pledge), referring to the pledge that ceases to be valid ('dies') either when the obligation is fulfilled or the property is seized.

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