creo

Possibly a backformation of neo-creo.

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creo (plural creos)

1. (slang) Clipping of creationist.
   • 2004 August 2, Jason, “Around the Blogs”, in Evolutionblog‎:

     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, Martinez, Ray, “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, Matzke, Nick, “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.

• neo-creo

creo (not comparable)

1. (slang) Clipping of creationist.
   • 2007 November 17, Myers, PZ, quoting raven (username), “The Discovery Institute lies to educators”, in Pharyngula‎, 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, Gerard, Mark, “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)

• -core, CORE, Core, cero, cero-, co-r.e., core, ocre

creo

1. first-person singular present indicative of crear

creo

1. first-person singular present indicative form of crear

creo

1. first-person singular present indicative of crer

• crèo
• IPA^(key): /ˈkrɛo/

creo

1. first-person singular indicative present of creare

• cero, cerò
• ocre
• reco, recò

From Proto-Italic *krēāō (“to make grow”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (“to grow, become bigger”), the same root of crēscō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkre.oː/

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creō (present infinitive creāre, perfect active creāvī, supine creātum); first conjugation

1. I create, make, produce
2. I beget, give birth to
3. I prepare, cause
4. I choose

• Mozarabic: [script needed] (kiriyáre)
• Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Aragonese: criar
• Old Leonese:
  • Extremaduran: crial
  • Leonese: crïare
• Old Portuguese: criar
  • Fala: crial
  • Galician: criar
  • Portuguese: criar
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: criar
• Sardinian: criai, criare
• Sicilian: criari
• → Albanian: krijoj
• → Aragonese: crear
• → Asturian: crear
• → Catalan: crear
• → French: créer
  • Haitian Creole: kreye
  • → Dutch: creëren
  • → German: kreieren
  • → Romanian: crea
• → Italian: creare
• → Leonese: creyare
• → Middle English: createn
  • English: create
  • Scots: creaut
• → Norman: créer
• → Occitan: crear
• → Spanish: crear
• → Swedish: kreera
• → Welsh: creu

• 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) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 142f

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾeo/

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See crear

creo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of crear.

See creer

creo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of creer.