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Latin
Etymology
From crēdō (“to believe”) + -ulus (“-ing”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
crēdulus (feminine crēdula, neuter crēdulum); first/second-declension adjective
- that easily believes a thing, easy of belief
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 4.311–312:
- cōnscia mēns rēctī fāmae mendācia rīsit,
sed nōs in vitium crēdulā turbā sumus- Her mind knew innocence, and laughed at the malicious gossip,
but we – as a crowd, we easily believe in fault.
(See Claudia Quinta.)
- credulous, gullible
- trusting, trusting in
- full of confidence in, confiding in
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
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References
- “credulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “credulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- credulus 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)
- credulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.