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”).

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creditor (plural creditors)

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

   Antonym: debtor

   The creditor demanded immediate payment.

   She met with her creditors to negotiate the debt.

   The creditor took legal action against the bankrupt company.

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]

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creditor m (plural creditors, feminine creditora, feminine plural creditores)

1. creditor

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

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkreː.dɪ.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkrɛː.d̪i.t̪or]

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