Where does “create” come from?
Create comes from Middle English createn, from Latin creatus, the past participle of Latin creāre meaning to make or produce, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ḱer-.
create (English): To bring into existence
Definitions
- To bring into existence
Ancestry of “create”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | createn | To make, invent, or create; To grant or bestow a... |
| 2 | Latin | creātus | created, having been created, made, having been made, produced, having been produced |
| 3 | Latin | creō | to create, to give existence to, to form, to make, to produce, to originate out of other materials or out of nihility (transitively) |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱer- | to grow, to make grow, to nourish; to plait,... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | kr̥- | to turn, to bend |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | ker- | army |