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default
early 13c., "failure, failure to act," from O.Fr.
defaute
, from M.L.
defalta
"a deficiency or failure," from L.
dis-
"away" +
fallere
"to be wanting." The financial sense is first recorded 1858; the computing sense is from 1966.
