credoとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹidəʊ/, /ˈkɹeɪdəʊ/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹidoʊ/, /ˈkɹeɪdoʊ/
• ハイフネーション: cre‧do
• 韻: -iːdəʊ

名詞

credo (複数形 credos または credoes)

1. A belief system.
   • 2019 May 19, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club‎^[1]:

     “You’re either with me or you’re against me” became Dany’s credo, and those against her were an ever-changing multitude to be determined solely by her whims.

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

   Credo III is so beautiful!

   • 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 […]

関連する語

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.

アナグラム

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

Latin

語源

From Proto-Italic *krezðō, 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 faciō).^[1]

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

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkreː.doː/, [ˈkreːd̪oː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkre.do/, [ˈkrɛːd̪o]

動詞

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

1. (with accusative または 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.

   Synonyms: confido, fido

   Antonym: diffīdō

3. I think, imagine, suppose, assume.
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.518:

     quis tantum fātī crēdat habēre locum?

     Who could imagine the place to have so great a destiny?

   Synonyms: censeo, iūdicō, puto, cōgitō, sentio, existimo, arbitror, opinor, reor

4. I commit or consign something to one for preservation, protection, etc., I entrust to one
5. I lend, I loan

使用する際の注意点

• Crēdō 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: Crēdō in ūnum Deum = "I believe in one God".

Conjugation

派生語

派生した語

参照

• “credo”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• “credo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• credo in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2022) Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• credo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], 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)‎^[3], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN