Debit and credit are formal
bookkeeping and
accounting terms that have opposite meanings and come from
Latin. Debit comes from , which means "to owe". The Latin means "debt". Credit comes from the
Latin word , which means "to believe".It is more common to use the terms in the plural, Debits and Credits.DEBIT is abbreviated as Dr., while credit is abbreviated as Cr.
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