different between credo vs credulity

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cr?d? (“I believe”); see creed.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?ido?/
• Hyphenation: cre?do
• Rhymes: -i?d??

Noun

credo (plural credos or credoes)

1. A belief system.
2. (Christianity) The liturgical creed (usually the Nicene Creed), or a musical arrangement of it 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 […]

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Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

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

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch crede, credo, borrowed from Latin cr?d?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kre?.do?/
• Hyphenation: cre?do
• Rhymes: -e?do?

Noun

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

Derived terms

• credobord
• credo-tekst

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: kredo

Italian

Etymology

From Latin cred?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kre.do/

Noun

credo m (plural credi)

1. creed

Verb

credo

1. first-person singular present indicative of credere

Anagrams

• cedro, cedrò, corde, crode

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *krezð?, from Proto-Indo-European *?red d?eh?- (“to place one's heart, i.e. to trust, believe”), compound phrase of oblique case form of *??r (“heart”) (whence also Latin cor) and *d?eh?- (“to put, place, set”) (whence also Latin faci?).

Cognates include Sanskrit ?????????? (?rad-?dh?, “to trust, believe”) and Old Irish creitid (“believes”, verb).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kre?.do?/, [?k?e?d?o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kre.do/, [?k???d??]

Verb

cr?d? (present infinitive cr?dere, perfect active cr?did?, supine cr?ditum); third conjugation

1. (with accusative or dative) I believe, I trust in, I give credence to.
2. I confide in, have confidence in.
3. I commit, consign, entrust to.
4. I lend, I loan

Usage notes

• Cr?d? often governs the dative with persons believed in, but the accusative with things or concepts believed in. The accusative may be accompanied by a preposition: Cr?d? in unum Deum = "I believe in one God".

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• 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?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)?^[3], Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN

Polish

Alternative forms

• kredo

Etymology

From Latin cr?d?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kr?.d?/

Noun

credo n (indeclinable)

1. (Christianity) credo (liturgical creed (usually the Nicene Creed), or a musical arrangement of it for use in church services)
2. credo (belief system)

Further reading

• credo in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• credo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cred? (“I believe”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

credo m (plural credos)

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

   Synonyms: crença, religião

Antonyms

• (creed): descrença

Related terms

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

Interjection

credo!

1. ew! (expression of disgust or nausea)

   Synonym: eca

2. Jesus! (expression of unpleasant surprise)

   Synonyms: nossa, Jesus

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cred? (“to believe”). Doublet of creo.

Noun

credo m (plural credos)

1. (religion) creed

Related terms

• creer

Anagrams

• cedro, cerdo

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /?kr?d?/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?kre?d?/, /?kr?d?/

Verb

credo

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

Mutation

English

Etymology

From Middle English credulite (“faith, belief”), borrowed from Old French credulité (French crédulité), from Latin cr?dulit?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k???dju?l?ti/

Noun

credulity (countable and uncountable, plural credulities)

1. (obsolete) Belief.
2. A willingness to believe in someone or something in the absence of reasonable proof; credulousness.

   Synonym: gullibility

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The history of Tom Jones, Book 6,

     Do you think Mr. Allworthy hath more contempt for money than other men because he professes more? Such credulity would better become one of us weak women, than that wise sex which heaven hath formed for politicians. Indeed, brother, you would make a fine plenipo to negotiate with the French.

   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World, ch. 9,

     As Challenger spoke of his pterodactyl I glanced at Professor Summerlee, and for the first time I seemed to see some signs of a dawning credulity and repentance. There was no sneer upon his thin lips, but, on the contrary, a gray, drawn look of excitement and amazement. Challenger saw it, too, and reveled in the first taste of victory.

Antonyms

• incredulity

Derived terms

• incredulity
• miscredulity
• overcredulity

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Translations

References

• Webster, Noah (1828) , “credulity”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
• credulity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “credulity” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928) , “Credulity”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume II (C), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 1157, column 1.