## Meanings
1. Money paid regularly to use a house, room, or property that belongs to someone else.
2. To pay money to use something, such as a house, car, or equipment, for a period of time.
3. To allow someone to use your property in return for regular payment.
4. A tear or split in cloth or another surface.

## Examples
- The rent is due at the start of each month.
- I rented a house for the summer.
- We rented our apartment to friends while we were abroad.
- There was a large rent in the old tent.

## Derived Forms
- antirent
- forerent
- high-rent
- liferent
- low-rent
- overrent
- quasi-rent
- quit-rent
- rack-rent
- rent-a-car
- rent-a-cop
- rent-a-crowd

## Related Forms
- hire

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: rent
- Root: rente
- Root: rendita
- Root: rendo
- Root: reddo

## Etymology
From Middle English rent, rente, from Old French rente, from Early Medieval Latin rendita, from Late Latin rendere, from Latin reddere.

## AI Etymology
Rent comes from Middle English rent, rente, from Old French rente, from Early Medieval Latin rendita, from Late Latin rendere, from Latin reddere. Modern senses include money paid regularly to use a house, room, or property that belongs to someone else. and to pay money to use something, such as a house, car, or equipment, for a period of time.. The wider word family includes derivatives such as antirent, forerent, high-rent, liferent, low-rent, and overrent and related forms such as hire.

## Topics
- Money & Finance

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