different between doctrine vs credo

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin doctrina (“teaching, instruction, learning, knowledge”), from doctor (“a teacher”), from docere (“to teach”); see doctor.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?kt??n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?kt??n/
• Hyphenation: doc?trine

Noun

doctrine (countable and uncountable, plural doctrines)

1. (countable) A belief or tenet, especially about philosophical or theological matters.

   The incarnation is a basic doctrine of classical Christianity.

   The four noble truths summarise the main doctrines of Buddhism.

2. (countable and uncountable) The body of teachings of an ideology, most often a religion, or of an ideological or religious leader, organization, group or text.

   What is the understanding of marriage and family in orthodox Marxist doctrine?

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Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Crediton, centroid

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch doctrine, from Middle French doctrine, from Latin doctr?na.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?k?tri.n?/
• Hyphenation: doc?tri?ne
• Rhymes: -in?

Noun

doctrine f (plural doctrines, diminutive doctrinetje n)

1. doctrine

   Synonyms: leer, leerstuk

Derived terms

• doctrinair
• indoctrineren

French

Etymology

From Latin doctrina, diminutive from doctus, taught, perfect passive participle of docere, teach

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?k.t?in/

Noun

doctrine f (plural doctrines)

1. doctrine

Further reading

• “doctrine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Spanish

Verb

doctrine

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of doctrinar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of doctrinar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of doctrinar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of doctrinar.

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

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