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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Debtor \Debt"or\, noun [OE. dettur, dettour, OF. detor, detur, detour, F. d['e]biteur, fr. L. debitor, fr. debere to owe. See {Debt}.] One who owes a debt; one who is indebted; -- correlative to creditor.
[I 'll] bring your latter hazard back again, And thankfully rest debtor for the first. --Shak.
In Athens an insolvent debtor became slave to his creditor. --Mitford.
Debtors for our lives to you. --Tennyson.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
debtor
noun: a person who owes a creditor; someone who has the obligation of paying a debt [ant: {creditor}]
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Debtor Various regulations as to the relation between debtor and creditor are laid down in the Scriptures. (1.) The debtor was to deliver up as a pledge to the creditor what he could most easily dispense with (Deut. 24:10, 11). (2.) A mill, or millstone, or upper garment, when given as a pledge, could not be kept over night (Ex. 22:26, 27). (3.) A debt could not be exacted during the Sabbatic year (Deut. 15:1-15). For other laws bearing on this relation see Lev. 25:14, 32, 39; Matt. 18:25, 34. (4.) A surety was liable in the same way as the original debtor (Prov. 11:15; 17:18).
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