renter

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)

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Etymology 1

Etymology tree

English rent

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-os?

Proto-Indo-European *-o-

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

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Latin -ārius

Old French -ierbor.

Middle English -er

English -er

English renter

From rent + -er.

Noun

renter (plural renters)

1. One who rents property or other goods from another.

   Synonyms: lessee, tenant, rentee

   • 1999, Donna M. Matherly, Michele Reader, Microsoft Office 97 Professional Essentials:

     Create an input form that enables you to enter the data for new videos without seeing the information on whether the video is rented. Save this form with the name New video. Then create a form for entering the name of a renter […]

   • 2024 September 12, Samantha Delouya, “Nearly half of US renters spend more than 30% of their income on housing costs”, in CNN Business‎^[1]:

     Nearly half of all renter households in the US were cost-burdened in 2023, meaning they paid more than 30% of their income towards housing costs, according to new government data.

   • 2024 December 16, Samantha Delouya, “The median renter in America has a net worth of $10,400. The median homeowner’s net worth is $400,000”, in CNN Business‎^[2]:

     A recent report from the Aspen Institute highlights the gaping wealth chasm that has formed between homeowners and renters in America.

2. (law) One who owns or controls property and rents that property to another.

   Synonyms: lessor, landlord, (rare) rentor

3. (UK, slang) Synonym of rent boy (“a male prostitute”)
   • 1998, Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet, Virago (2018), page 205:

     It was Sweet Alice who introduced me to the various renter types, and explained to me their costumes, and their habits, and their skills.

4. (informal) A film worth renting, but not possibly worth visiting a cinema to see.

Usage notes

• In conventional legal terminology, the term should apply only to the party that owns property and grants another party the right to occupy or use it in exchange for rent. The party that pays for such use is more precisely described as the rentee. Nevertheless, common usage frequently applies the term to the paying party, and this broader usage has increasingly appeared in legal discourse as well.

Derived terms

• liferenter
• permarenter
• rack-renter
• sub-renter

Translations

One who owns or controls property and allows others to use it for a fee

• Bulgarian: наемател m (naematel)
• Czech: pronajímatel (cs) m
• Māori: kairēti
• Slovak: prenajímateľ m
• Turkish: kiracı (tr)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French rentraire; Latin prefix re- (“re-”) + in (“into, in”) + trahere (“to draw”).

Verb

renter (third-person singular simple present renters, present participle rentering, simple past and past participle rentered)

1. (transitive, dated) To sew together so that the seam is scarcely visible; to sew up with skill and nicety; to finedraw.
2. (transitive, dated) To restore the original design of (a tapestry) by working in new warp.

Derived terms

• renterer

Anagrams

• rerent

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɑ̃.te/

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Verb

renter

1. to endow

Inflection

Conjugation of renter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	renter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rentant /ʁɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		renté /ʁɑ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rente /ʁɑ̃t/	rentes /ʁɑ̃t/	rente /ʁɑ̃t/	rentons /ʁɑ̃.tɔ̃/	rentez /ʁɑ̃.te/	rentent /ʁɑ̃t/
	imperfect	rentais /ʁɑ̃.tɛ/	rentais /ʁɑ̃.tɛ/	rentait /ʁɑ̃.tɛ/	rentions /ʁɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	rentiez /ʁɑ̃.tje/	rentaient /ʁɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	rentai /ʁɑ̃.te/	rentas /ʁɑ̃.ta/	renta /ʁɑ̃.ta/	rentâmes /ʁɑ̃.tam/	rentâtes /ʁɑ̃.tat/	rentèrent /ʁɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	renterai /ʁɑ̃.tʁe/	renteras /ʁɑ̃.tʁa/	rentera /ʁɑ̃.tʁa/	renterons /ʁɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	renterez /ʁɑ̃.tʁe/	renteront /ʁɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	renterais /ʁɑ̃.tʁɛ/	renterais /ʁɑ̃.tʁɛ/	renterait /ʁɑ̃.tʁɛ/	renterions /ʁɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	renteriez /ʁɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	renteraient /ʁɑ̃.tʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	rente /ʁɑ̃t/	rentes /ʁɑ̃t/	rente /ʁɑ̃t/	rentions /ʁɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	rentiez /ʁɑ̃.tje/	rentent /ʁɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	rentasse /ʁɑ̃.tas/	rentasses /ʁɑ̃.tas/	rentât /ʁɑ̃.ta/	rentassions /ʁɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	rentassiez /ʁɑ̃.ta.sje/	rentassent /ʁɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rente /ʁɑ̃t/	—	rentons /ʁɑ̃.tɔ̃/	rentez /ʁɑ̃.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “renter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• entrer, errent, rentre, rentré

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

renter m or f

1. indefinite plural of rente

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

renter f

1. indefinite plural of rente