creditor

• creditour (obsolete)

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

creditor (plural creditors)

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

   Antonym: debtor

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

• debtholder
• noteholder
• bondholder

• director

Borrowed from Latin crēditōrem.

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

creditor m (plural creditors, feminine creditora)

1. creditor

   Synonyms: anglès (slang), anglés (slang, Valencia)

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkreː.di.tor/, [ˈkreːd̪ɪt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkre.di.tor/, [ˈkrɛːd̪it̪or]

crēditor m (genitive crēditōris); third declension

1. creditor, lender

Third-declension noun.

• crēditrīx

• “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
    

Borrowed from French créditeur.

creditor m (plural creditori)

1. creditor