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
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
creditor (plural creditors)
- (finance) A person to whom a debt is owed.
- Antonym: debtor
- One who gives credence to something; a believer.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
a person to whom a debt is owed
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin crēditōrem.
Pronunciation
Noun
creditor m (plural creditors, feminine creditora, feminine plural creditores)
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.d̪i.t̪or]
Noun
crēditor m (genitive crēditōris); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | crēditor | crēditōrēs |
genitive | crēditōris | crēditōrum |
dative | crēditōrī | crēditōribus |
accusative | crēditōrem | crēditōrēs |
ablative | crēditōre | crēditōribus |
vocative | crēditor | crēditōrēs |
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Descendants
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
- the creditor: creditor, or is cui debeo
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French créditeur.
Noun
creditor m (plural creditori)