credo
Dictionary entries
- 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;
sg. pres. act. ind. 1st
Examples
Aeneid IV
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...sese ore ferens, quam forti pectore et armis! credo equidem, nec vana fides, genus esse deorum. degeneres animos..."Aeneid VI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...quam tibi diva creatrix ostendit (neque enim, credo, sine numine divum flumina tanta paras Stygiamque innare paludem..."Aeneid VII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...medias acies mediosque per ignis invenere viam. at, credo, mea numina tandem fessa iacent, odiis aut exsaturata quievi..."Aeneid X
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...Teucros Aetolis surgit ab Arpis Tydides. equidem credo, mea vulnera restant et tua progenies mortalia demoror arma..."Ecloga III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Ecologues
"...faciles Nymphae risere—sacello. Menalcas Tum, credo, cum me arbustum videre Miconos atque mala vitis incidere falce novellas..."Liber I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...actis progeniem paruam dulcisque reuisere nidos. haud equidem credo, quia sit diuinitus illis ingenium aut rerum fato prudentia..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...nescio quid lubet iocari et solaciolum sui doloris, credo ut tum gravis acquiescat ardor: tecum ludere sicut ipsa..."Aeneid I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...medio sic interfata dolore est: 'Quisquis es, haud, credo, invisus caelestibus auras vitalis carpis, Tyriam qui adveneris urbem..."