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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 1380, Chaucer|origins=la creāre}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /kriˈeɪt/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|enm|createn]],^(AHD 2000)^(MWU 2024) [[bor|la|creātus]], the past participle of [[m|la|creāre|t=to make, bring forth, produce, beget]],^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(Hoad 1986) related to [[m|la|crēscere|t=to arise, grow]] and to the goddess Ceres,^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988) from [[ine-pro|*ker-|t=to grow]].^(Etymonline)^(AHD 2000) De Vaan writes that the original meaning of creāre was “to make grow”.^(Etymonline) In English it was first used as a past participle, creat “created”, extended with -ed.^(Hoad 1986)^(SOED 2002)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Of God, “to bring into being”: about 1380, in Chaucer's translation of Boethius,^(Barnhart 1988) or about 1386.^(OED 1989) Etymonline dates the verb to the early 15th century.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ From God's creation the verb widened to making or forming anything, including institutions and laws, from 1592,^(OED 1989) and to causing or giving rise to a condition from 1599.^(OED 1989) To ''create'' a person a peer or knight, investing them with a rank, is from about 1460.^(OED 1989) An actor ''creates'' a role by being the first to play it, from 1882,^(OED 1989) and a designer creates a costume or dish from 1930.^(OED 1989) In British slang, “to make a fuss” is from 1919.^(OED 1989) In Yorkshire and Lincolnshire dialect, dust was said to create, “gather, settle”.^(Wright 1898)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1380 – of God, to bring into being.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * c. 1390 – ''creation''.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * c. 1460 – to invest with a rank.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1592 – to make or form anything.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1599 – to give rise to.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1678 – ''creative''.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1882 – of an actor, to create a role.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1919 – to make a fuss (slang).^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To bring into existence.^(AHD)^(SOED 2002)

+ # To give rise to; to [[produce]]: ''create problems''.^(AHD)^(OED 1989)

+ # To make something through artistic or [[imagination|alt=imaginative]] effort.^(AHD)

+ # To give someone a [[title]] or rank: ''was created a baron''.^(AHD)^(OED 1989)

+ # ''(British slang)'' To make a fuss.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[creatable]]

+ * [[discreate]]

+ * [[increate]]

+ * [[miscreate]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[creation]]

+ * [[creationism]]

+ * [[creative]]

+ * [[creativity]]

+ * [[creator]]

+ * [[creatural]]

+ * [[creature]]

+ * [[creaturely]]

+ * [[procreate]]

+ * [[recreate]]

+ * [[re-create]]

+ * [[recreation]]

+ * [[crescent]]

+ * [[increase]]

+ * [[Ceres]]

+ * [[cereal]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}