In love I trust

In amorem credo

George the Roman.

Hi Doris!
Pardon the shorts, my toga's at the cleaners.

Hahaha that's ok, it's more comfortable when you're playing football anyway :wink:

Love your sig line, George . . . you got the purple stripe on your toga now, right?

Yep.
Covers the wine stains.



I love Jim's lyrics, but it takes me forever to figure them out!

Isn't "Credo" something more like "believe" than trust.

I haven't had Latin in 20-some years, but the other Romance languagez use creer for believe and something like "confiar" for trust.

Well the roman languages have developed through people speaking bad Latin :wink:

Good question, ebrown.

In Latin 'credere' originally was part of the language of business and
meant 'to loan' (thus 'creditum', 'a loan'). By transference, it picked up
the meaning of 'to entrust to someone'. From there, it came to mean 'to
trust' or 'to have confidence in'. Only later did it come to mean 'to believe.'

That's interesting George (aside: is there a mark to denote a lack of sarcasm?.. everything I write could be taken wrong, but here I mean to say that it is sincerely interesting).

I never made that link with the word "credit" before. My last exposure to the word Credo was in a wonderful Bach mass (via the Nicene creed)...

"Credo in unum Deum, Patrem omnipotentem, factorem coeli et terrae, visibilium omnium, et invisibilium."

just thinking about what Bach did with this phrase gives me shivers...

Amen to that!