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English
Alternative forms
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)
- (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
- 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)
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin crēditōrem.
Pronunciation
Noun
creditor m (plural creditors, feminine creditora)
- creditor
- Synonyms: anglès (slang), anglés (slang, Valencia)
Latin
Etymology
From crēditum (“loan”), from crēditus, perfect passive participle of crēdō (“lend”).
Pronunciation
Noun
crēditor m (genitive crēditōris); third declension
- creditor, lender
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
Related terms
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, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the creditor: creditor, or is cui debeo
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French créditeur.
Noun
creditor m (plural creditori)
- creditor
Declension