creditor

English

Alternative forms

• creditour (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Noun

creditor (plural creditors)

1. (finance) A person to whom a debt is owed.
2. One who gives credence to something; a believer.

Antonyms

• debtor

Hyponyms

• debtholder
• noteholder
• bondholder
• general creditor

Translations

a person to whom a debt is owed

• Armenian: պարտատեր (hy) (partater), վարկատու (hy) (varkatu)
• Bulgarian: кредито́р (bg) m (kreditór)
• Catalan: creditor m, (slang) anglès (ca) m
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: věřitel (cs) m
• Esperanto: kreditoro
• Estonian: võlausaldaja
• Finnish: velkoja (fi), luotonantaja (fi), lainanantaja (fi)
• French: créancier (fr) m
• 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)
• Hungarian: hitelező (hu)
• Italian: creditore (it) m
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• Japanese: 債権者 (ja) (さいけんしゃ, saikensha), 貸方 (ja) (かしかた, kashikata)
• Korean: 채권자 (chaegwonja)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: deyndêr (ku) m or f

• Latin: crēditor (la) m
• 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
• Swahili: mdai (sw), mkopeshaji class 1/2
• Swedish: borgenär (sv), fordringsägare (sv) c, kreditor (sv) c
• Thai: เจ้าหนี้ (jâao-nîi)

Anagrams

• director

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin crēditōr-, stem of crēditor.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

creditor m (plural creditors, feminine creditora)

1. creditor

Synonyms

• (slang) anglès, (slang, Valencia) anglés

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkreː.di.tor/, [ˈkreːd̪ɪt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkre.di.tor/, [ˈkrɛːd̪it̪or]

Noun

crēditor m (genitive crēditōris); third declension

1. creditor, lender

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	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
• English: creditor
• French: créditeur

• Italian: creditore
• Norman: créditeu (Jersey)
• Portuguese: credor

• Romanian: creditor
• 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