credo

Borrowed from Latin crēdō (“I believe”); see creed.

• Hyphenation: cre‧do

credo (plural credos or credoes)

1. A belief system.
2. (Christianity) A musical arrangement of the Creed for use in church services.
   • 1996, Pastoral Music (volume 21, page 12)

     Until the mid-1970s, however, most Catholic hymnals contained at least one musical setting of the creed […] By the 1980s hymnals having sung credos were mainly those devoted to "traditional" styles of church music […]

• credo in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• credo in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• Coder, OCRed, coder, cored, decor, décor

From Middle Dutch crede, credo, borrowed from Latin crēdō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkreː.doː/

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• Hyphenation: cre‧do

credo n (plural credo's, diminutive credootje n)

1. (religion, chiefly Christianity) confession of faith, creed

   Synonyms: belijdenis, geloofsbelijdenis

2. (by extension) (strong) conviction

   Synonym: overtuiging

• credobord
• credo-tekst

From Latin credō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkre.do/

credo m (plural credi)

1. creed

credo

1. first-person singular present indicative of credere

   Credo. ― I believe.

• cedro, cedrò, corde, crode

From Proto-Italic *krezdō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱred dʰeh₁- (“to place one's heart, i.e. to trust, believe”), compound phrase of oblique case form of *ḱḗr (“heart”) (whence also Latin cor) and *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”) (whence also Latin faciō).[1]

Cognates include Sanskrit श्रद्दधाति (śrad-√dhā, “to trust, believe”) and Old Irish creitid (“believes”, verb).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkreː.doː/

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crēdō (present infinitive crēdere, perfect active crēdidī, supine crēditum); third conjugation

1. (with accusative or dative) I believe, I trust in, I give credence to.
   • c. 200 BCE – 190 BCE, Plautus, Captivi :

     Tune huic credis?

     Do you believe him?

   • c. 200 BCE – 190 BCE, Plautus, Captivi :

     Aristophontes: Quid tu autem? Etiam huic credis?
     Hegio: Quid ego credam huic?
     Aristophontes: Insanum esse me?

     Aristophontes: How’s this? You, too? Do you actually believe him?
     Hegio: Believe him in what?
     Aristophontes: That I’m insane?

2. I confide in, have confidence in.
3. I commit, consign, entrust to.

• Crēdō often uses dative case with persons believed in, but accusative case with things or concepts believed in. Accusative usage may be accompanied by a preposition: crēdimus in Deum = "we believe in God".

• credo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• credo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• credo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • I am gradually convinced that..: addūcor, ut credam
    
  • I cannot make myself believe that..: non possum adduci, ut (credam)
    
  • we believe in the existence of a God: deum esse credimus
    
  • to lend some one money (without interest): pecuniam alicui credere (sine fenore, usuris)
    
  • believe me: mihi crede (not crede mihi)
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill

Borrowed from Latin credō (“I believe”).

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾɛ.ðu/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾɛ.du/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾɛ.do/

credo m (plural credos)

1. (religion) creed; credo (a religious belief system)

   O credo cristão.

   The Christian creed.

• (creed): crença, religião

• (creed): descrença

• crer, acreditar, crédito, credência, creditado, crédulo

credo!

1. ew! (expression of disgust or nausea)
2. Jesus! (expression of unpleasant surprise)

• (ew!): eca
• (Jesus!): nossa, Jesus

Borrowed from Latin credō (“I believe”).

credo m (plural credos)

1. (religion) creed
2. (pray) Creed

• creer

• cedro, cerdo

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkrɛdɔ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkreːdɔ/, /ˈkrɛdɔ/

credo

1. (literary) third-person singular present subjunctive of credu