creditor

English

Alternative forms

creditour (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Noun

creditor (plural creditors)

(finance) A person to whom a debt is owed.
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 (zh), 债权人 (zh) (zhàiquánrén), 貸方 (zh), 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)
Hebrew: נושה‎ m (noshe)
Hungarian: hitelező (hu)
Italian: creditore (it) m

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

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin crēditōr-, stem of crēditor.

Pronunciation

(Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /kɾə.diˈto/

(Valencian) IPA^(key): /kɾe.diˈtoɾ/

Noun

creditor m (plural creditors, feminine creditora)

creditor

Synonyms

(slang) anglès, (slang, Valencia) anglés

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkreː.di.tor/

Noun

crēditor m (genitive crēditōris); third declension

creditor, lender

Inflection

Third declension.

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

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, 1883–1887)
creditor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the creditor: creditor, or is cui debeo

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