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, Ray Martinez, “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, Nick Matzke, “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, PZ Myers, quoting raven (username), “The Discovery Institute lies to educators”, in Pharyngula‎, archived from the original on 26 January 2012, 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, Mark Gerard, “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, ROCE, cero, cero-, co-r.e., core, ocre

creo

1. first-person singular present indicative of crear

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈkɾe.u]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [ˈkɾe.o]

creo

1. first-person singular present indicative of crear

creo

1. first-person singular present indicative of crer

• IPA^(key): /ˈkrɛ.o/
• Rhymes: -ɛo
• Hyphenation: crè‧o

creo

1. first-person singular present indicative of creare

• c'ero, cero, cerò, core, ocre, reco, recò

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁-eh₂yéti, from the root *ḱer- (“to grow, become bigger”), whence also Latin crēscō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkre.oː/, [ˈkreoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkre.o/, [ˈkrɛːo]

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

1. to create, to give existence to, to form out of nihility or out of other materials: to make, to produce, to originate (transitively)

   Synonym: aedificō

2. to cause, to prepare, to occasion
3. to choose, elect

   Synonyms: adoptō, optō, dēligō, ēligō, dēstinō, dēsūmō, sēpōnō, legō, sūmō, capiō

4. (figurative, poetic): to beget, give birth to

   Synonyms: prōcreō, genō, gignō, suscipiō, ēdō, cōnītor, ēnītor, pariō, prōdō, efficiō

¹At least one use of the archaic "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used by Old Latin writers; most notably Plautus and Terence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to").

• “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) “creō, -āre”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 142–143
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “creare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 1296

• IPA^(key): /kɾe.o/

creo

1. first-person singular present indicative of creer

• Galician: creo
• Portuguese: creio

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾeo/ [ˈkɾe.o]

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• Rhymes: -eo
• Syllabification: cre‧o

creo

1. first-person singular present indicative of crear

creo

1. first-person singular present indicative of creer