Etymology: < classical Latin creātus, past participle of creāre create v. Compare discussion at create v. With use as adjective compare later created adj.

Etymology: < classical Latin creāt-, past participial stem (see -ate suffix³) of creāre to procreate, (of males) to beget, (of females) to give birth, (of God, Nature, etc.) to bring into being, to produce, to bring about, cause, to appoint. Compare Anglo-Norman creer , crier to create from nothing, to produce, make (12th cent. in Old French), to appoint or nominate (someone to a role, office, etc.) (early 14th cent.), and also Old Occitan criar , Catalan crear (14th cent.), Spanish criar (11th cent.; now only in spec. sense ‘to bring up, to raise’), crear (13th cent.), Portuguese criar (11th cent.), Italian creare (13th cent.). Compare create adj.In Middle English chiefly as past participle, usually in uninflected form, although sometimes with -ed . See quot. ?1457 at sense 2a for an isolated Middle English use of the present stem (as infinitive, in a periphrastic past construction with do v.). Uninflected past tense forms are found occasionally in Middle English (compare quot. ?a1475 at sense 2a), and past tense forms in -ed are found from the 16th cent. With sense 2d compare French créer un rôle , and also creation n. 1d.