different between creditor vs banker

English

Alternative forms

• creditour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English creditour, from Anglo-Norman creditour, from Latin cr?ditor, from cr?ditum (“loan”), from cr?ditus, perfect passive participle of cr?d? (“lend”)

Noun

creditor (plural creditors)

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

   Antonym: debtor

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

Antonyms

• debtor

Hyponyms

• debtholder
• noteholder
• bondholder
• general creditor

Translations

Anagrams

• director

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cr?dit?r-, stem of cr?ditor.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /k??.di?to/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /k?e.di?to?/

Noun

creditor m (plural creditors, feminine creditora)

1. creditor

Synonyms

• (slang) anglès, (slang, Valencia) anglés

Latin

Etymology

From cr?ditum (“loan”), from cr?ditus, perfect passive participle of cr?d? (“lend”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kre?.di.tor/, [?k?e?d??t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kre.di.tor/, [?k???d?it??r]

Noun

cr?ditor m (genitive cr?dit?ris); third declension

1. creditor, lender

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• cr?ditr?x

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, 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.

Romanian

Etymology

From French créditeur

Noun

creditor m (plural creditori)

1. creditor

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?bæ?k?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?bæ?k?/
• Rhymes: -æ?k?(r)

Etymology 1

bank +? -er, after French banquier.

Noun

banker (plural bankers)

1. One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc.
2. The dealer in a casino, or one who keeps the bank in a banking game.
3. (obsolete) A money changer.
4. The stone bench on which a mason cuts or squares his work.

Hyponyms

• usurer (offering loans, esp. at very high interest); loan shark (independent, offering loans at high interest); saraf (early modern Middle East & India); shroff (early modern India & SE Asia)

Derived terms

Related terms

• bank
• banking

Translations

Etymology 2

From bank (“an elevation, or rising ground”) + +? -er

Noun

banker (plural bankers)

1. A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.
2. (Britain, dialect) A ditcher; a drain digger.
   • 1941, Ernestine Hill, My Love Must Wait, A&R Classics 2013, p. 6:

     But this was no storm, the bankers could have told him. It was break of the year.

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3. (mining) A banksman.

Translations

Etymology 3

From bank (“an incline or hill”) +? -er.

Noun

banker (plural bankers)

1. (rail transport, Britain, Australia) A railway locomotive that can be attached to the rear of a train to assist it in climbing an incline.

Synonyms

• (railway locomotive): bank engine (UK), helper, helper engine (US)

Translations

References

Anagrams

• barken

Danish

Noun

banker c pl

1. indefinite plural of bank

Verb

banker

1. present of banke

Ladino

Noun

banker m (Latin spelling)

1. banker

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From banke +? -er

Noun

banker m (definite singular bankeren, indefinite plural bankere, definite plural bankerne)

1. a beater (implement used for beating)

Derived terms

• teppebanker

Etymology 2

Noun

banker m pl

1. indefinite plural of bank.
2. indefinite plural of banke

Etymology 3

Verb

banker

1. present of banke

References

• “banker_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Swedish

Noun

banker

1. indefinite plural of bank.

Anagrams

• barken