credibilis

Latin

Etymology

From crēdō (“believe”) +‎ -bilis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kreːˈdi.bi.lis/, [kreːˈd̪ɪbɪlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kreˈdi.bi.lis/, [kreˈd̪iːbilis]

Adjective

crēdibilis (neuter crēdibile, adverb crēdibiliter); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. credible, worthy of belief, believable
2. 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

• crēdibilitās
• 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
• → 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.