creditor

English

Alternative forms

• creditour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English creditour, from Anglo-Norman creditour, from Latin crēditor, from crēditum (“loan”), from crēditus, perfect passive participle of crēdō (“lend”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɛdɪtə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɛdɪtɚ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

creditor (plural creditors)

1. (finance) A person to whom a debt is owed.

   Antonym: debtor

   The creditor demanded immediate payment.

   She met with her creditors to negotiate the debt.

   The creditor took legal action against the bankrupt company.

2. One who gives credence to something; a believer.

Hyponyms

• debtholder
• noteholder
• bondholder

Derived terms

• catholic creditor
• creditorship
• creditress
• frauditor
• general creditor
• noncreditor
• preferred creditor
• secured creditor
• unsecured creditor

Translations

a person to whom a debt is owed

• Armenian: պարտատեր (hy) (partater), վարկատու (hy) (varkatu)
• Asturian: acreedor m, acreedora f
• Belarusian: крэдыто́р m (kredytór)
• Bulgarian: кредито́р (bg) m (kreditór)
• Catalan: creditor m, (slang) anglès (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 債權人 / 债权人 (zh) (zhàiquánrén), 貸方 / 贷方 (zh) (dàifāng)

• Czech: věřitel (cs) m
• Danish: kreditor c
• Dutch: schuldeiser (nl) m, crediteur (nl) c
• Esperanto: kreditoro
• Estonian: võlausaldaja
• Finnish: velkoja (fi), luotonantaja (fi), lainanantaja (fi)
• French: créancier (fr) m, créancière (fr) f
• German: Gläubiger (de) m, Kreditor (de) m
• Gothic: 𐌳𐌿𐌻𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌾𐌰 m (dulgahaitja)
• Greek: πιστωτής (el) m (pistotís), δανειστής (el) m (daneistís)

  Ancient: χρήστης m (khrḗstēs)

• Hebrew: נושה m (noshe)
• Hindi: ऋणदाता m (ŕṇdātā), साहूकार (hi) m (sāhūkār)
• Hungarian: hitelező (hu)
• Irish: cobhthach m
• Italian: creditore (it) m, creditrice (it) f
• Japanese: 債権者 (ja) (さいけんしゃ, saikensha), 貸方 (ja) (かしかた, kashikata)
• Kazakh: кредитші (kreditşı)
• Korean: 채권자 (chaegwonja)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: deyndêr (ku) m or f

• Latin: crēditor (la) m, crēditrix (la) f
• Latvian: kreditors m, kreditore f
• Maori: kaitukunama, kaitukumoni
• Middle English: creditour, creaunsour
• Norman: créditeu m
• Polish: wierzyciel (pl) m
• Portuguese: credor (pt) m
• Russian: кредито́р (ru) m (kreditór), заимода́вец (ru) m (zaimodávec), заимода́тель (ru) m (zaimodátelʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: зајмодавац m (zajmodavac)
• Slovak: veriteľ m
• Spanish: acreedor (es) m, acreedora (es) f
• Swahili: mdai (sw), mkopeshaji class 1/2
• Swedish: borgenär (sv), fordringsägare (sv) c, kreditor (sv) c
• Thai: เจ้าหนี้ (th) (jâao-nîi)
• Ukrainian: кредито́р m (kredytór), кредито́рка f (kredytórka)
• Vietnamese: chủ nợ

Anagrams

• director

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin crēditōrem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kɾə.ðiˈto]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kɾe.ðiˈtoɾ]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

Noun

creditor m (plural creditors, feminine creditora, feminine plural creditores)

1. creditor

   Synonyms: anglès (slang), anglés (slang, Valencia)

Latin

Etymology

From crēditum (“loan”), from crēditus, perfect passive participle of crēdō (“lend”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkreː.dɪ.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkrɛː.di.tor]

Noun

crēditor m (genitive crēditōris); third declension

1. creditor, lender

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	crēditor	crēditōrēs
genitive	crēditōris	crēditōrum
dative	crēditōrī	crēditōribus
accusative	crēditōrem	crēditōrēs
ablative	crēditōre	crēditōribus
vocative	crēditor	crēditōrēs

Derived terms

• crēditrīx

Related terms

• crēdibilis
• crēdibiliter
• crēditō
• crēditum
• crēditus
• crēdō
• crēdulitās
• crēdulus

Descendants

• Catalan: creditor
• Italian: creditore
• Old French: creditor, creditour
  • Middle French: crediteur
    • French: créditeur
      • → Romanian: creditor
    • → Dutch: crediteur
      • → Indonesian: kreditur
  • Norman: créditeu (Jersey)
  • → Middle English: creditour, credytour (from Anglo-Norman)
    • English: creditor
• Portuguese: credor
• Russian: кредито́р (kreditór)
• Spanish: acreedor, creedor

References

• “creditor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “creditor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "creditor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “creditor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the creditor: creditor, or is cui debeo
    

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French créditeur.

Noun

creditor m (plural creditori, feminine equivalent creditoare)

1. creditor

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	creditor	creditorul		creditori	creditorii
genitive-dative	creditor	creditorului		creditori	creditorilor
vocative	creditorule			creditorilor