mortgage
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mortgage
- /ˈmɔːɡɪd͡ʒ/ UK
- /ˈmoːɡɪd͡ʒ/ Australia, British, Southern
- /ˈmoɹ.ɡɪd͡ʒ/ US
- /ˈmoːɡəd͡ʒ/ New Zealand
- /ˈmɔɾɡɪd͡ʒ/ Scotland
Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)ɡɪd͡ʒ
Where it comes from
From Middle English morgage and Middle French mortgage, from Anglo-Norman morgage, from Old French mort gage (“dead pledge”), after a translation of judicial Medieval Latin mortuum wadium, with wadium from Frankish *wadi (“wager, pledge”). Compare gage and also wage. So called because rents and profits from the land were owed to the lender for as long as the gage existed (comparable to interest on a loan today), as opposed to the living gage, in which rents and profits automatically reduced the debt (paying it off over time).
noun mortgages · morgage
- A legal agreement in which a borrower pledges real property as collateral for a loan used to purchase or refinance that property. The appriser, therefore, (as the holder of a mortgage was then called,) entered upon possession, and in the language of Hotspur, "came me cranking in," and cut the family out of another monstrous cantle of their remaining property.
- The state of being pledged. lands given in mortgage
verb mortgages · mortgaging · mortgaged · morgage
- To borrow against a property, to obtain a loan for another purpose by giving away the right of seizure to the lender over a fixed property such as a house or piece of land; to pledge a property in order to get a loan. to mortgage a property, an estate, or a shop
- To pledge and make liable; to make subject to obligation; to achieve an immediate result by paying for it in the long term. She mortgaged her future for the pleasures of the relationship with the sculptor, a relationship she knew would be short.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: mortgagee, collateralized, loan, lending, contract, financing, borrowing, foreclose, real-estate, charge, debt, recognizance, property, hypothec, guarantee, pledge
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noun special form of secured loan
| Español | hipoteca |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 저당 jeodang, 저당권 jeodanggwon, 모기지 론 mogiji ron |
| 日本語 | 抵当 teitō, 抵当権 teitōken, 住宅ローン jūtaku rōn |
| 中文 | 抵押 dǐyā, 抵押貸款 /抵押贷款 dǐyā dàikuǎn, 按揭 ànjiē, 房貸 /房贷 fángdài |
| हिन्दी | रेहन rehan, रहन rahan, बंधक bandhak, गिरवी girvī |
| Kiswahili | rehani |
| Português | hipoteca |
| Français | hypothèque |
| Deutsch | Hypothek |
| Italiano | ipoteca |
| Ελληνικά | υποθήκη ypothíki |
| Română | ipotecă |
| Русский | ипоте́ка ipotéka |
| Tiếng Việt | quyền cầm cố |
| العربية | رَهْن rahn, رَهْن عَقَارِيّ rahn ʕaqāriyy |
| עברית | מַשְׁכַּנְתָּא mashkánta |
verb to borrow against a property
| 中文 | 按揭 ànjiē, 抵押 dǐyā, 質押 /质押 zhíyā |
|---|---|
| हिन्दी | गिरवी girvī, रेहन rehan |
| Português | hipotecar |
| Français | hypothéquer |
| Deutsch | verpfänden, eine Hypothek aufnehmen |
| Italiano | ipotecare |
| Ελληνικά | υποθηκεύω ypothikévo |
| Tiếng Việt | cầm cố |
| עברית | משכן mishkén |
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title = {mortgage},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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