creato

Creato is the Italian past participle of creare, meaning created or made. It functions mainly as an adjective describing something that has been produced or brought into existence, and it agrees with the noun in gender and number: un oggetto creato, una creatura creata, i oggetti creati, le creature create. The participle also appears in compound tenses with the auxiliary essere or avere, as in è stato creato or sono stati creati, depending on the sentence structure.

In everyday Italian, creare and its participle are used broadly to indicate production or fabrication, from objects and works of art to more abstract results like idee create or soluzioni create. When used as a noun, creato is uncommon in ordinary speech, but the term il Creato may appear in religious or philosophical contexts to refer to the created order—the universe and its beings—as distinct from the Creator. In these uses, Creato is often capitalized to signal this theological sense and is common in discussions of stewardship, creation, and ethics within Christian discourse.

Etymology traces creato to Latin creatus, the past participle of creare. Its Romance-language cognates—such as Spanish creado or Portuguese criado—share the same root idea of something that has been brought into existence. In translation, creato is typically rendered as “created” when functioning as an adjective, and as “the Created” or “the Creation” in theological contexts.