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”).

Noun

creditor (plural creditors)

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

   Antonym: debtor

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

Hyponyms

• debtholder
• noteholder
• bondholder

Derived terms

• catholic creditor
• frauditor
• general creditor
• 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)
• 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)

Anagrams

• director

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin crēditōrem.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

creditor m (plural creditors, feminine creditora)

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.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
    

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French créditeur.

Noun

creditor m (plural creditori)

1. creditor

Declension

Declension of creditor

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) creditor	creditorul	(niște) creditori	creditorii
genitive/dative	(unui) creditor	creditorului	(unor) creditori	creditorilor
vocative	creditorule		creditorilor