credenti
Dictionary entries
- Entry →credens, credentis:
Common · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Stelten (Ecclesiastical Latin)
- Age:
- Later
- Field:
- Religion
believer; the_faithful (pl.);
abl. sg.dat. sg.loc. sg. - Entry →credo, credere, credidi, creditus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
trust, entrust; commit/consign; believe, trust in, rely on, confide; suppose;; lend (money) to, make loans/give credit; believe/think/accept as true/be sure;
abl. sg. pres. act. part.dat. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...Ascylto redde". Dum haec ego iam credenti persuadeo, Giton collectione spiritus plenus ter continuo ita sternutavit, ut grabatum..."XIX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...quemadmodum effugimus, evadimus? in tanta infamia nihil facere credentis est. vis me circumire singulos, reclamare populo, cum rumore..."VII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...tortor interrogat, qui non habent in sua potestate credentis! impatientissima res est posse, cum velis, desinere torqueri. 'Quin..."Amores II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Amores
"...alii referant ad vos; quod quisque loquetur, credite! credenti nulla procella nocet. Sero respicitur tellus, ubi fune soluto..."Liber XXIX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Numidae, haud sane multum ad se pertinere credenti utrum penes Lacumazen an Masinissam regnum Maesuliorum esset, falli..."Liber XVI
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...minore adulatione servilia fingebant, securi de facilitate credentis. Gliscebat interim luxuria spe inani consumebanturque veteres opes quasi oblatis..."