due

due
dû, due 1.
(du, due) part. passé de devoir.
1°   Qui fait l'objet d'une dette. Argent dû depuis longtemps.
2°   Fig. Une réprimande due à son impertinence.
•   Tu sais ce qui t'est dû, tu vois que je sais tout, CORN. Cinna, V, 1.
•   Rien n'est plus dû à la vanité que la risée, PASC. Prov. 11.
•   Ils s'imaginent que tout leur est dû, BOSSUET Serm. Sept..
•   Par cette fin terrible et due à ses forfaits, RAC. Athal. V, 8.
•   Le sentiment se plaît surtout à donner ce qui n'est pas dû, STAËL Corinne, XX, 4.
3°   Terme de pratique. Un acte en due forme, acte rédigé conformément à la loi et revêtu de toutes les formalités voulues.
   Jusqu'à due concurrence, jusqu'à la concurrence de la somme, de la quantité.
   Part. passif barbare debutus (le 1er u étant un u long), de debere (voy. DEVOIR, verbe), formé comme bevutus, bu, anciennement beü, de bibere, boire.

Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré. . 1872-1877.

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