Other forms: creeds
A creed is a short formal statement of what a faith believes. The Nicene creed, recite the creed, a personal creed.
The two great Christian ones were written to settle arguments rather than to inspire, which is why they read like legal documents. Of every creed means of any belief at all. The word is the Latin credo, I believe — the first word of the text itself.
1nouncreedA short formal statement of belief.
“The congregation stood and said the creed together.”
creed is a statement of belief.
Latin credo means I believe, the opening word of the statement. Credit and credible come from the same believing.
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱerd-
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱréddʰeh₁ti — to trust, believe
Proto-Italic
*krezdō
Latin
crēdō — to believe
Old English
crēda
Middle English
crede
English, today
creed
Built from
From Middle English crede, from Old English crēda, crēdo, from Latin crēdō (“to believe”), from Proto-Italic krezdō, from Proto-Indo-European ḱréddʰeh₁ti (“to trust, believe”) literally “to place one's heart”, a compound phrase of the oblique case form of ḱḗr (“heart”). Creed is cognate with Old Irish creitid (“to believe”), Sanskrit श्रद्दधाति (“to have faith or faithfulness, to have belief or confidence, believe”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA