different between creditor vs creed

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

Etymology

From Old English creda, crede, credo, from Latin cr?d? (“I believe”), from Proto-Italic *krezd?, from Proto-Indo-European *?red d?eh?- (“to place one's heart, i.e., to trust, believe”), a compound phrase of the oblique case form of *??r (“heart”). Creed is cognate with Old Irish cretim (“to believe”), Sanskrit ?????????? (?ráddadh?ti, “to have faith or faithfulness, to have belief or confidence, believe”). Doublet of shraddha.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?i?d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?id/
• Rhymes: -i?d

Noun

creed (plural creeds)

1. That which is believed; accepted doctrine, especially religious doctrine; a particular set of beliefs; any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to.
2. (specifically, religion) A reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents; a confession of faith for public use, especially one which is brief and comprehensive.
3. (rare) The fact of believing; belief, faith.

Hyponyms

• Apostles' Creed
• Athanasian Creed
• Nicene Creed

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

creed (third-person singular simple present creeds, present participle creeding, simple past and past participle creeded)

1. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete, only survives in "creeded") To believe; to credit.
2. (intransitive) To provide with a creed.

Translations

References

• creed in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• creed in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Further reading

• creed on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• creed (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ceder, cered, rec'ed

Spanish

Verb

creed

1. (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of creer.