credulitas

Latin

Etymology

From crēdulus (“credulous”) +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kreːˈdu.li.taːs/, [kreːˈd̪ʊlʲɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kreˈdu.li.tas/, [kreˈd̪uːlit̪äs]

Noun

crēdulitās f (genitive crēdulitātis); third declension

1. credulity, easiness of belief

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	crēdulitās	crēdulitātēs
Genitive	crēdulitātis	crēdulitātum
Dative	crēdulitātī	crēdulitātibus
Accusative	crēdulitātem	crēdulitātēs
Ablative	crēdulitāte	crēdulitātibus
Vocative	crēdulitās	crēdulitātēs

Related terms

• crēdibilis
• crēdibiliter
• crēditor
• crēditrīx
• crēditum
• crēdō
• crēdulus
• incrēdibilis
• incrēdibiltās
• incrēdibiliter
• incrēditus
• incrēdulitās
• incredulus

Descendants

• Catalan: credulitat
• English: credulity
• French: crédulité
• Galician: credulidade
• Italian: credulità
• Occitan: credulitat
• Portuguese: credulidade
• Romanian: credulitate
• Spanish: credulidad

References

• “credulitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “credulitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• credulitas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• credulitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.