creditum

Latin

Etymology

From crēditus, the perfect passive participle of crēdō (“loan, entrust”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkreː.dɪ.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkrɛː.di.tum]

Noun

crēditum n (genitive crēditī); second declension

1. a loan

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	crēditum	crēdita
genitive	crēditī	crēditōrum
dative	crēditō	crēditīs
accusative	crēditum	crēdita
ablative	crēditō	crēditīs
vocative	crēditum	crēdita

Related terms

• crēditor
• crēditrīx
• crēditus
• crēdō

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • → Italian: credito (learned)
    • → Catalan: crèdit
    • → French: crédit
      • → English: credit
    • → Galician: crédito
    • → German: Kredit
      • → Hunsrik: Krëtitt
      • → Polish: kredyt
      • → Russian: креди́т (kredít)
    • → Portuguese: crédito
    • → Spanish: crédito
    • → Sicilian: crìditu (learned)
    • → Venetan: credito
• Ibero-Romance:
  • → Asturian: creitu (semi-learned)
  • → Galician: creto (semi-learned)
  • → Portuguese: creto (semi-learned)

Participle

crēditum

1. inflection of crēditus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

Verb

crēditum

1. accusative supine of crēdō

References

• “creditum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “creditum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "creditum", 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)
• “creditum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.