credibilis
Latin
Etymology
From crēdō (“believe”) + -bilis.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kreːˈdi.bi.lis/, [kreːˈd̪ɪbɪlʲɪs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kreˈdi.bi.lis/, [kreˈd̪iːbilis]
Adjective
crēdibilis (neuter crēdibile, adverb crēdibiliter); third-declension two-termination adjective
- credible, worthy of belief, believable
- likely
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | crēdibilis | crēdibile | crēdibilēs | crēdibilia | |
| Genitive | crēdibilis | crēdibilium | |||
| Dative | crēdibilī | crēdibilibus | |||
| Accusative | crēdibilem | crēdibile | crēdibilēs crēdibilīs | crēdibilia | |
| Ablative | crēdibilī | crēdibilibus | |||
| Vocative | crēdibilis | crēdibile | crēdibilēs | crēdibilia | |
Derived terms
- crēdibilitas
- crēdibiliter
Related terms
- crēditor
- crēditrīx
- crēditum
- crēdō
- crēdulitās
- crēdulus
- incrēdibilis
- incrēdibiltās
- incrēdibiliter
- incrēditus
- incrēdulitās
- incredulus
Descendants
- Galician: críbel, crible
- Portuguese: crível
- → Catalan: creïble (semi-learned)
- → Middle French: credible, crédible
- French: crédible
- → Romanian: credibil
- → Middle English: credible, credeable, credebule, credibele, credibill, credyble, credybyl
- English: credible
- French: crédible
- → Italian: credibile
- → Portuguese: credível
- → Spanish: creíble (semi-learned)
References
- “credibilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “credibilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- credibilis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- credibilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette