# creo
## English
### Etymology

Possibly a backformation of neo-creo.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (General Australian):(file)

### 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, archived from the original on 15 October 2011:In Texas, for example, a creo-dominated board of education in 2009 successfully shoehorned creationist language into the life and earth sciences standards.

#### Related terms

* neo-creo

### 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 […]

#### Related terms

* evo-creo (evolution/creationism)

### Anagrams

* -core, CORE, Core, ROCE, cero, cero-, co-r.e., core, ocre

## Asturian
### Verb

creo
* first-person singular present indicative of crear

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈkɾe.u]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkɾe.o]

### Verb

creo
* first-person singular present indicative of crear

## Galician
### Verb

creo
* first-person singular present indicative of crer

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkrɛ.o/
* Rhymes: -ɛo
* Hyphenation: crè‧o

### Verb

creo
* first-person singular present indicative of creare

### Anagrams

* c'ero, cero, cerò, core, ocre, reco, recò

## Latin
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁-eh₂yéti, from the root *ḱer- (“to grow, become bigger”), whence also Latin crēscō.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkre.oː/, [ˈkreoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈkre.o/, [ˈkrɛːo]

### 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

$^1$At least one use of the Old Latin "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").

#### Derived terms

* creābilis
* creāmen
* creātiō
* creātor
* creātrīx
* creātūra

#### Descendants

* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: criai (Campidanese), criare (Logudorese)
* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: criare (archaic), >? creare
** Sicilian: criari
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: criar
** Old French: crier
** Old Occitan: criar
* Ibero-Romance:
** Aragonese: criar
** Extremaduran: crial
** Leonese: creyare
** Old Galician-Portuguese: criar
*** Fala: crial
*** Galician: criar
*** Portuguese: criar
** Spanish: criar
* Ancient borrowings:
** → Albanian: krijoj
** → Welsh: creu
* Later borrowings:
** → Aragonese: crear
** → Asturian: crear
** → Catalan: crear
** → French: créer (see there for further descendants)
** → Galician: crear
** → Middle English: createn (see there for further descendants)
** → Norman: créer
** → Occitan: crear
** → Polish: kreować
** → Spanish: crear
** → Swedish: kreera

### 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

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɾe.o/

### Verb

creo
* first-person singular present indicative of creer

#### Descendants

* Galician: creo
* Portuguese: creio

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɾeo/ [ˈkɾe.o]
* Audio (Latin America):(file)
* Rhymes: -eo
* Syllabification: cre‧o

### Etymology 1
#### Verb

creo
* first-person singular present indicative of crear

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

creo
* first-person singular present indicative of creer