creature
Middle English
/krɛːaːˈtiu̯r/, /krɛːˈtiu̯r/, /krɛˈaːtiu̯r/
noun
Definitions
- Something that has been created; an entity or object.
- A living being or creature; an animal or beast.
- A human being often as a term of self-abasement.
- (rare) The whole world, the totality of existence.
- (rare) The process of making or creation.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French criature derived from Latin creātūra (creature, created thing) affix from Middle English createn.
Origin
Middle English
createn
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- create English
- creatural English
- creature English
- creaturedom English
- creaturehood English
- creaturekind English
- creatureless English
- creaturelike English
- creaturely English
- creatureship English
- creaturism English
- creaturize English
- cybercreature English
- mercreature English
- were-creature English
- werecreature English
- creātus Latin
- creātūra Latin
- creō Latin
- kreatúra Hungarian
- creatura Italian
- クリーチャー Japanese
- creacion Middle English
- createn Middle English
- creatour Middle English
- creatoure Middle English
- creatur Middle English
- creature Old French
- criature Old French
- creadur Welsh
- creature Middle Dutch
- creatura Old Occitan
- crétúir Middle Irish