creditor Latin · revision 6281

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Twelve Tables|origins=la crēdō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈkreː.dɪ.tɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈkrɛː.di.tor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''crēditor''' ''m'' (genitive crēditōris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[crēdō]] “to trust, lend” with the agent suffix [[-tor]], through ⟨crēditum⟩ “loan”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is the Twelve Tables, which he dates about 450 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant one to whom money or something else is owed, a creditor, as in Cicero, Livy and Seneca, with a genitive of the debtor or the debt.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) The Digest defines it in law.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant a creditor.^(Stelten 1995) In Medieval Latin it meant a creditor, figuratively one owed something, and a client.^(DMLBS) It survives in Italian ''creditore'' and Spanish ''acreedor''.^(Wiktionary) [[en|creditor]] came through Anglo-French in the mid-15th century.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 450 BC – The Twelve Tables use it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of creditors.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 533 AD – The Digest defines it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * mid-15th century – English ''creditor'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|creditor]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A client.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[crēdō]]

+ * [[crēditum]]

+ * [[dēbitor]]

+ * [[en|creditor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}