renter

C2+ Topic:People & Society

US /ˈrɛntɚ/ UK /ˈrɛntə/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

noun
a person who pays rent to use property

As a renter, she could not alter the apartment.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a person who pays rent to... tenant lessee occupant leaseholder rentee

Opposites

landlord owner lessor

Word family

Related forms rent rental rentee

Etymology

From rent + -er, where rent comes from Old French rente ('income, revenue'), from Vulgar Latin rendita, from Latin reddere ('to give back, render').

rente Old French reddere Latin dare Latin

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Topics

People & Society Word Formation & Derivatives

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# renter

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈrɛntɚ/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈrɛntə/

## Meanings
1. a person who pays rent to use property

## Examples
- As a renter, she could not alter the apartment.

## Synonyms
- tenant
- lessee
- occupant
- leaseholder
- rentee

## Antonyms
- landlord
- owner
- lessor

## Related Forms
- rent
- rental
- rentee

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: rente
- Root: reddere
- Root: dare

## Etymology
From rent + -er, where rent comes from Old French rente ('income, revenue'), from Vulgar Latin rendita, from Latin reddere ('to give back, render').

## AI Etymology
Renter comes from rent + -er, where rent comes from Old French rente ('income, revenue'), from Vulgar Latin rendita, from Latin reddere ('to give back, render'). The historical chain includes Old French rente, Latin reddere, and Latin dare. The quoted older senses, "income, revenue" and "to give back, render", supply the semantic anchors for renter. The formation is best read as suffixal and borrowed: the word renter carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a noun, "a person who pays rent to use property". Related English forms include rent, rental, and rentee. The result is a noun whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

## Topics
- People & Society
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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