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- Latin · derived fromcrēditum“a loan, credit”
- Middle French · borrowed fromcrédit“belief, trust”
- English todaycredit
Borrowed from Middle French crédit (“belief, trust”), from Latin crēditum (“a loan, credit”), neuter of crēditus, past participle of crēdere (“to believe”). The verb is from the noun. Doublet of shraddha, creed.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.