creber
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁- (“to grow”), the same root of Latin crēscō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkreː.ber/, [ˈkreːbɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkre.ber/, [ˈkrɛːber]
Adjective
crēber (feminine crēbra, neuter crēbrum, comparative crēbrior, superlative crēberrimus, adverb crēbrē or crēbriter or crēbrō); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)
Usage notes
May describe physical objects that appear in a multitude, or immaterial objects.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | crēber | crēbra | crēbrum | crēbrī | crēbrae | crēbra | |
Genitive | crēbrī | crēbrae | crēbrī | crēbrōrum | crēbrārum | crēbrōrum | |
Dative | crēbrō | crēbrō | crēbrīs | ||||
Accusative | crēbrum | crēbram | crēbrum | crēbrōs | crēbrās | crēbra | |
Ablative | crēbrō | crēbrā | crēbrō | crēbrīs | |||
Vocative | crēber | crēbra | crēbrum | crēbrī | crēbrae | crēbra |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Portuguese: crebro
References
- “creber”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “creber”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- creber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- rich in ideas: sententiis abundans or creber (opp. sententiis inanis)
- to place a close line of sentry-posts: vigilias crebras ponere (Sall. Iug. 45. 2)
- to make a sally, sortie from the town: crebras ex oppido excursiones facere (B. G. 2. 30)
- rich in ideas: sententiis abundans or creber (opp. sententiis inanis)
Categories:
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin 2-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin adjectives
- Latin first and second declension adjectives with nominative masculine singular in -er
- Latin first and second declension adjectives
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook