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Hypothec vs Hypotheca - What's the difference?

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Hypotheca is a descendant of hypothec.



As nouns the difference between hypothec and hypotheca

is that hypothec is in Scotland, a landlord's right over the stocking (cattle, implements, etc.), and crops of his tenant, as security for payment of rent while hypotheca is the lower or posterior half of the theca of a thecate protist such as a diatom or dinoflagellate.

hypothec

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (legal) In Scotland, a landlord's right over the stocking (cattle, implements, etc.), and crops of his tenant, as security for payment of rent.
  • (colloquial) Everything; the whole lot.
  • :...saddle and all, the whole hypothec turned round and grovelled in the dust below the donkey’s belly.

    • Related terms

    * hypothecate

    References

    * (1879) by Robert Louis Stevenson

    hypotheca

    English

    Noun

    (hypothecae)
  • (microbiology, planktology) The lower or posterior half of the theca of a thecate protist such as a diatom or dinoflagellate

    • Coordinate terms

    * epitheca

    Derived terms

    * hypothecal

    See also

    * hypothec * (Frustule) ----