dare credito

Italian

Etymology

Literally, “to give credence”.

Verb

dàre credito (first-person singular present (with syntactic gemination after the verb) dò credito, first-person singular past historic dièdi credito or diédi credito or détti credito or (traditional) dètti credito, past participle dàto credito, first-person singular future darò credito, first-person singular subjunctive dìa credito, first-person singular imperfect subjunctive déssi credito, second-person singular imperative dài credito or dà' credito, auxiliary avére)

1. to have trust or confidence (in); to give credence (to); to believe (in); to trust [+ a (someone)]

   Synonyms: credere, fidarsi

   • 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 26, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:

     Al di fuori dell'universo Fox News, non potevo dire che i giornalisti delle principali testate dessero esplicitamente credito a queste accuse bizzarre.

     Outside the Fox universe, I couldn't say that any mainstream journalists explicitly gave credence to these bizarre charges.

     (literally, “Outside of the Fox News universe, I could not say that the journalists of the main newspapers explicitly believed in these bizarre accusations.”)