- 1信條（宗教場合也說「信經」）
A credo is a short, rather formal statement of what a person, a group, or a religion holds as true and will stand by. In church, the old Latin prayer that begins I believe is a Credo; English also calls that a creed. Outside church, writers and bosses use credo for a guiding line they keep repeating: her credo is that every child can learn. It feels more solemn than opinion and more carved-in-stone than idea. Though actually, people stretch it: a company credo on a wall may just be advertising. The word is Latin for I believe. It came into English beside creed — same old word, two doors in. It has nothing to do with credit cards.
組成Inherited from Middle English credo, from Old French credo, from Latin crēdō (I believe / to believe). Creed is a doublet: the same Latin word by another path.
同家族的字
- creeddoublet: same Latin crēdō, older English path
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
credonoun/ˈkɹidəʊ/
- 1
A statement of a belief or a summary statement of a whole belief system; also (metonymically) the belief or belief system itself.
- “You’re either with me or you’re against me” became Dany’s credo, and those against her were an ever-changing multitude to be determined solely by her whims.
- 2
ChristianityThe liturgical creed (usually the Nicene Creed), or a musical arrangement of it for use in church services.
- Credo III is so beautiful!
- Until the mid-1970s, however, most Catholic hymnals contained at least one musical setting of the creed […] By the 1980s hymnals having sung credos were mainly those devoted to "traditional" styles of church music […]
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