Tim King's et al. translation

[-JKP-]

Deure is not Latin.

Yes it is.
2nd person singular present active imperative of deuro: to burn up, consume, destroy
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I made an effort to try to find it in medieval Latin transliterations before posting. I've learned that just because a word theoretically exists as a tense or declension doesn't mean it was used.

I stand corrected if someone can find a medieval use of it.


The Catalan deure arose sometime in the mid- to late-medieval period, but not from Latin deure, it is said to be via Old Occitan via Latin debeo (via vulgar debere at an earlier time). It is very common for medieval Catalan words to have dropped consonants (I imagine it may have been a very round and sonorous language).