creditor
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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)
- (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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Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin crēditōrem.
Pronunciation
Noun
creditor m (plural creditors, feminine creditora)
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
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | crēditor | crēditōrēs |
Genitive | crēditōris | crēditōrum |
Dative | crēditōrī | crēditōribus |
Accusative | crēditōrem | crēditōrēs |
Ablative | crēditōre | crēditōribus |
Vocative | crēditor | crēditōrēs |
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[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)
Declension
Declension of creditor
singular | plural | |||
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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 |
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