Skip to content

crédito

credit

noun KREH-dee-toh Less Common

Origin: From Latin 'creditum', something entrusted.

Also means

loan

Usage Note

Crédito covers both the financial sense (a loan or line of credit) and the more abstract sense of credibility or recognition — dar crédito (to give credit / to believe something). No doy crédito means 'I can't believe it'. In academia, crédito is a course credit. The adjective crediticio appears in banking contexts.

Examples

"Pidió un crédito al banco."

Natural Translation

He applied for a loan from the bank.

Explore Spanish by topic