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Etymology edit

Contracted from Old Galician-Portuguese creer, from Latin crēdere, present active infinitive of crēdō, from Proto-Italic *krezðō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱred dʰeh₁- (to place one's heart, i.e. to trust, believe), compound phrase of oblique case form of *ḱḗr (heart) and *dʰeh₁- (to put, place, set).

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crer (first-person singular present creo, first-person singular preterite crín, past participle crido)
crer (first-person singular present creio, first-person singular preterite crim or cri, past participle crido, reintegrationist norm)

  1. to believe
    Antonym: descrer
  2. to trust
    Synonym: confiar
    Antonym: desconfiar

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References edit

  • creer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • cree” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • crer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • crer” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • crer” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
  • crer” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese creer, from Latin crēdere, from Proto-Italic *krezðō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱred dʰeh₁- (to place one's heart, i.e. to trust, believe), compound phrase of oblique case form of *ḱḗr (heart) and *dʰeh₁- (to put, place, set).

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Verb edit

crer (first-person singular present creio, first-person singular preterite cri, past participle crido)

  1. to believe

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