Other forms: debtors
A debtor is a person or firm that owes money. A debtor nation, chase the debtors, debtor and creditor.
It is the exact counterpart of creditor and the pair runs through all of accounting: debtors owe you money and creditors are owed by you, which students reverse constantly. Debtors' prisons were abolished in Britain in the nineteenth century. Note the silent b, added to show the Latin, as in debt.
1noundebtorA person or firm that owes money.
“The bank sent a letter to every debtor who had missed a payment.”
debtor is a person who owes.
Old French detour comes from Latin debitor, from debere, to owe. The b was restored later to show the Latin.
Latin
debitor
Old French
detour
Middle English
dettour
English, today
debtor
From Middle English dettour, from Old French detour, from Latin debitor, equivalent to debt + or. a doublet of debitor. Displaced native *sċola.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA