creditus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of crēdō (“loan, confide in, trust, believe”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkreː.di.tus/, [ˈkreːd̪ɪt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkre.di.tus/, [ˈkrɛːd̪it̪us]

Participle

crēditus (feminine crēdita, neuter crēditum); first/second-declension participle

1. lent, loaned, having been loaned
2. committed, consigned, having been entrusted to
3. trusted, having confided in
4. believed in, trusted in, having given credence to
5. believed, having been believed

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	crēditus	crēdita	crēditum		crēditī	crēditae	crēdita
Genitive	crēditī	crēditae	crēditī		crēditōrum	crēditārum	crēditōrum
Dative	crēditō		crēditō		crēditīs
Accusative	crēditum	crēditam	crēditum		crēditōs	crēditās	crēdita
Ablative	crēditō	crēditā	crēditō		crēditīs
Vocative	crēdite	crēdita	crēditum		crēditī	crēditae	crēdita

Derived terms

• crēditor
• crēditrīx
• crēditum

Related terms

• crēdō

Descendants

• Galician: creto
• Romansch: cret
• Venetan: creto

References

• creditus 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)
• creditus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to repay a loan: pecuniam creditam solvere