A person who leases or rents land or property from another, or someone who holds a lease; a tenant or renter.
From Spanish 'arrendador' or 'arrendatario,' derived from 'arrendar' (to lease). The term was common in Iberian and colonial legal documents describing tenancy arrangements.
Colonial records reveal how 'arrendators' formed a distinct social class—they weren't owners or laborers, but rather the middlemen who controlled vast estates on behalf of absentee landlords across the Atlantic!
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