| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | cre·do |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  kr  d , kr - |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. cre·dos
1. A creed. 2. Credo a. The Apostles' Creed. b. The Nicene Creed, especially as the third item of the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Mass. c. The musical setting of the Nicene Creed. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, the Apostles' Creed, from Latin crd, I believe (the first word of the Apostles' Creed or the Nicene Creed), first person sing. present tense of crdere, to believe. See kerd- in Appendix I.
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