From Latin creō (“to create, make, produce”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkrei/

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• Rhymes: -ei
• Syllabification: kre‧i

krei (present kreas, past kreis, future kreos, conditional kreus, volitive kreu)

1. to create
   • 1927, L. L. Zamenhof, transl., La Sankta Biblio [The Holy Bible]‎^[1] (hardcover), London; Edinburgh: British and Foreign Bible Society; Scottish Bible Society, →ISBN, page 5:

     EN la komenco Dio kreis la ĉielon kaj la teron.

     In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth.

   • 2012, Plato, translated by Donald Broadribb, La Respubliko (Traduko al Esperanto) [The Republic (Translation into Esperanto)], 2nd corrected edition (paperback), New York: Mondial, →ISBN, page 20:

     "Mi demandis," mi diris, "ĉar ne ŝajnas al mi ke vi tre alte taksas monon. Tiaj estas homoj kiuj ne perlaboris ĝin. La perlaborintoj amas ĝin duoble pli ol la aliaj. Same kiel poetoj amas siajn poemojn kaj patroj siajn infanojn, tiel la perlaborintoj amas riĉon ĉar ili kreis ĝin."

     "I asked," I said, "because it doesn't seem to me that you value money very highly. Such are people who do not earn it. The earners love it twice more than the others. In the same way poets love their poems and fathers their children, the earners love wealth in that way, because they created it."

• kreado
• kreema

krei n

1. (non-standard since 2012) definite plural of kre

• reik, reki, rike

From English cry.

krei

1. To cry
   • 1936, Melville J. Herskovits, Frances S. Herskovits, Suriname folk-lore‎^[2], New York: Columbia University Press, page 424:

     Bɔfru dɛ krei̯, Dia dɛ krei̯, Tamanwa 'ɛ krei̯. Nō mō ala den meti 'ɛ gowe wą' wą'. Nō mō Hagu drapɛ, 'ɛ bari, ‘Bia, bia, bia, / Mi yɛre suma dɛdɛ, / Ma karaki dɛ bro.’

     [Bofru e krei, Dia e krei, Tamanwa e krei. Nomo ala den meti e gwe wanwan. Nomo Agu drape e bari, 'Bia, bia, bia / Mi yere suma dede / Ma karaki e bro.']

     Buffalo was crying, Deer was crying, Anteater was crying. No sooner did all the animals go away one by one, than Hog called out, ‘Bia, bia, bia, / I hear a person died, / But his backside breathes.’