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”).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɛdɪtə/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɛdɪtɚ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)

Noun

creditor (plural creditors)

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

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

a person to whom a debt is owed

Albanian: kreditor (sq) m
Arabic: دَائِن m (dāʔin)
Armenian: պարտատեր (hy) (partater), վարկատու (hy) (varkatu)
Asturian: acreedor m, acreedora f
Azerbaijani: kreditor, borcverən
Belarusian: крэдыто́р m (kredytór), крэдыто́рка f (kredytórka)
Bengali: ঋণদাতা (bn) (rindata)
Bulgarian: кредито́р (bg) m (kreditór), кредито́рка f (kreditórka)
Burmese: ကြွေးရှင် (my) (krwe:hrang)
Catalan: creditor m, (slang) anglès (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 債權人 / 债权人 (zh) (zhàiquánrén), 貸方 / 贷方 (zh) (dàifāng), 債主 / 债主 (zh) (zhàizhǔ)
Czech: věřitel (cs) m, věřitelka f, věřitelkyně f
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
Georgian: კრედიტორი (ḳrediṭori)
German: Gläubiger (de) m, Kreditor (de) m
Gothic: 𐌳𐌿𐌻𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌾𐌰 m (dulgahaitja)
Greek: πιστωτής (el) m (pistotís), δανειστής (el) m (daneistís)
Ancient Greek: χρήστης m (khrḗstēs)
Hebrew: נוֹשֶׁה m (noshé)
Hindi: ऋणदाता m (ŕṇdātā), साहूकार (hi) m (sāhūkār)
Hungarian: hitelező (hu)
Icelandic: kröfuhafi m
Indonesian: kreditor (id)
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), несиегер (nesieger)
Khmer: ម្ចាស់បំណុល (km) (mcah bɑmnol), ឥណទាយក (ʼinaʼtiəyŭək)
Korean: 채권자(債權者) (chaegwonja)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: deyndêr (ku) m or f
Kyrgyz: кредитор (kreditor)
Lao: ເຈົ້າໜີ້ (lo) (chao nī)
Latin: crēditor (la) m, crēditrix (la) f
Latvian: kreditors m, kreditore f
Lithuanian: kreditorius m, kreditorė f
Malay: pemiutang
Māori: kaitukunama, kaitukumoni
Middle English: creditour, creaunsour
Norman: créditeu m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kreditor m
Pannonian Rusyn: поверитель m (poveritelʹ), пожичкодаватель m (požičkodavatelʹ), кредитор m (kreditor)
Persian:
Iranian Persian: طَلَبْکار (fa) (talabkâr), بِسْتانْکار (fa) (bestânkâr), قَرْض دَهَنْدِه (ġarz dahande), وام‌دَهَنْدِه (vâm-dahande)
Polish: wierzyciel (pl) m, wierzycielka f
Portuguese: credor (pt) m
Romanian: creditor (ro) m, creditoare (ro) f
Russian: кредито́р (ru) m (kreditór), заимода́вец (ru) m (zaimodávec), заимода́тель (ru) m (zaimodátelʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: зајмода́вац m, крѐдӣтор m

Latin: zajmodávac (sh) m, krèdītor (sh) m
Slovak: veriteľ m, veriteľka f
Slovene: upnik m, upnica f
Spanish: acreedor (es) m, acreedora (es) f
Swahili: mdai (sw), mkopeshaji class 1/2
Swedish: borgenär (sv) c, fordringsägare (sv) c, kreditor (sv) c
Tajik: қарздиҳанда (qarzdihanda)
Thai: เจ้าหนี้ (th) (jâao-nîi)
Turkish: kreditör, alacaklı (tr), borç veren
Ukrainian: кредито́р m (kredytór), кредито́рка f (kredytórka)
Urdu: قَرْض دِہِنْدَہ m (qarz dihinda), قَرْض خْواہْ m (qarz xvāh), دائِن m (dāin)
Uyghur: قەرز بەرگۈچى (qerz bergüchi)
Uzbek: kreditor (uz), qarz beruvchi
Vietnamese: chủ nợ

Anagrams

director

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin crēditōrem.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

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.dɪ.tɔr]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkrɛː.di.tor]

Noun

crēditor m (genitive crēditōris); third declension

creditor, lender

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	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

Descendants

Catalan: creditor
Italian: creditore
Old French: creditor, creditour
- Middle French: crediteur
  - French: créditeur
    - → Romanian: creditor
  - → Dutch: crediteur
    - → Indonesian: kreditur
- Norman: créditeu (Jersey)
- → Middle English: creditour, credytour (from Anglo-Norman)
  - English: creditor
Portuguese: credor
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, 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, feminine equivalent creditoare)

creditor

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	creditor	creditorul	creditori	creditorii
genitive-dative	creditor	creditorului	creditori	creditorilor
vocative	creditorule		creditorilor