Etymology
Possibly a backformation of neo-creo.
Noun
creo (plural creos)
- (slang) Clipping of creationist.
2004 August 2, Jason, “Around the Blogs”, in Evolutionblog, archived from the original on 4 March 2012:Nelson is just about the only creationist who makes some effort at presenting his ideas in legitimate scientific venues, but Pharyngula does a good job of showing why creo's don't do well in such situations.
2005 March 24, Ray Martinez, “Re: Natural Selection”, in talk.origins (Usenet), message-ID <1111718471.043282.17720@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>:Anytime you want to debate an intelligent creo instead of the AiG YEC morons I will promptly oblige you.
2007 September 10, Nick Matzke, “Iapetus flyby today!”, in Panda's Thumb:And of course the creos will say that whatever they find is evidence for a young universe.
2010 December 17, “Top Ten Evolution Stories of 2010”, in National Center for Science Education:In Texas, for example, a creo-dominated board of education in 2009 successfully shoehorned creationist language into the life and earth sciences standards.
Adjective
creo (not comparable)
- (slang) Clipping of creationist.
2007 November 17, PZ Myers, quoting raven (username), “The Discovery Institute lies to educators”, in Pharyngula, archived from the original on 26 January 2012, comment #128:[comment #128 by "raven"] In the hotbed of creo nonsense, the USA, acceptance of the fact of evolution runs around 99% among relevant scientists.
2008 November 26, Mark Gerard, “Re: Science be damned!”, in talk.origins (Usenet):First, I have to agree with you regarding the many creo sites and their unqualified interpretations of fossil evidence […]
- evo-creo (evolution/creationism)
Verb
creō (present infinitive creāre, perfect active creāvī, supine creātum); first conjugation
- to create, to give existence to, to form out of nihility or out of other materials: to make, to produce, to originate (transitively)
- Synonym: aedificō
- to cause, to prepare, to occasion
- to choose, elect
- Synonyms: adoptō, optō, dēligō, ēligō, dēstinō, dēsūmō, sēpōnō, legō, sūmō, capiō
- (figurative, poetic): to beget, give birth to
- Synonyms: prōcreō, genō, gignō, suscipiō, ēdō, cōnītor, ēnītor, pariō, prōdō, efficiō
Conjugation
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1At least one use of the archaic "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used by Old Latin writers; most notably Plautus and Terence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to").
Descendants
- → Albanian: krijoj
- Italo-Romance:
- Old Italian: criare
- Sicilian: criari
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Sardinian:
- Ancient borrowings:
- Later borrowings:
References
- “creo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “creo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- creo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- God made the world: deus mundum aedificavit, fabricatus est, effecit (not creavit)
- to endanger, imperil a person or thing: alicui periculum creare, conflare
- to be chosen consul at the elections: comitiis consulem creari
- to be elected unanimousl: omnes centurias ferre or omnium suffragiis, cunctis centuriis creari
- to be elected at the age required by law (lex Villia annalis): suo (legitimo) anno creari (opp. ante annum)
- to elect a consul: consulem creare
- to name a person dictator: dictatorem dicere (creare)
- (ambiguous) God is the Creator of the world: deus est mundi procreator (not creator), aedificator, fabricator, opifex rerum
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “creō, -āre”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 142–143
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “creare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 1296