(verb) : crĕo (old form cerĕo, in Varr. L. L. 6, § 81 Müll.), āvi, ātum, 1, kindred with Sanscr. kar, kri, to make
* To bring forth, produce, make, create, beget (very freq. in every period and species of composition).
* Lit.
* In gen.: rerum primordia pandam, Unde omnes natura creet res auctet alatque,Lucr. 1, 51: animalia,id. 2, 1152: genus humanum,id. 5, 820: mortalia saecla,id. 5, 789: fruges,id. 2, 170: ignem,id. 1, 799; cf.: ignes e lignis,id. 1, 910 et saep.: (Silvius) Aenean Silvium creat,Liv. 1, 3, 7; cf.: fortes creantur fortibus et bonis,Hor. C. 4, 4, 29.—Also of woman: pueris beata creandis Uxor,Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 44; Pall. Febr. 26, 2.—Hence, in poets freq. in part. perf.: crĕātus, a, with abl. (masc. or fem.), sprung from, begotten by, born of; or subst., an offspring, a child, Ov. M. 5, 145; 11, 295; 11, 303 al.—Subst.: crĕāta, ōrum, n., things made: servare,Lucr. 2, 572.
* Trop., to produce, prepare, cause, occasion: voluptatem meis inimicis,Plaut. Cas. 2, 7, 3: commoditatem mihi,id. Poen. 4, 2, 94: lites,id. ib. 3, 2, 9: omnis has aerumnas,id. Mil. 1, 1, 33: capitalem fraudem tuis cruribus capitique,id. ib. 2, 3, 23: moram dictis,id. Ps. 1, 3, 174: errorem (similitudo),Cic. Div. 2, 26, 55: luxuriam,id. Rosc. Am. 27, 75: seditionem,Vell. 2, 20: taedium ac satietatem ex similitudine,Quint. 9, 4, 143: vomitum dissolutionemque stomachi,Plin. 9, 48, 72, § 155 et saep.
* Of the officer who appoints or superintends an election: quos (consules) cum Ti. Gracchus consul iterum crearet,Cic. N. D. 2, 4, 10.
* In eccl. Lat. of the exercise of divine power in creation, to create, call into being, endow with existence, etc.: caelum et terram,Vulg. Gen. 1, 1: hominem,id. ib. 5, 1: omnia,id. Eph. 3, 9.
* Meton.: cor mundum in me,Vulg. Psa. 50, 11 al.

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