cresco
See also: cresço
Italian
Verb
cresco
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *krēskō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁- (“to grow, become bigger”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkreːs.koː/, [ˈkreːs̠koː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkres.ko/, [ˈkrɛsko]
Verb
crēscō (present infinitive crēscere, perfect active crēvī, supine crētum); third conjugation, no passive
- I increase, rise, grow, thrive; multiply, augment.
- I come to be.
- I become visible, spring from, arise, come forth.
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References
- “cresco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cresco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cresco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the moon waxes, wanes: luna crescit; decrescit, senescit
- my subject grows as I write: materia mihi crescit
- to take courage: animus alicui accedit, crescit
- the price of corn is going up: annona ingravescit, crescit
- to raise oneself by another's fall: crescere ex aliquo
- to profit by the unpopularity of the senate to gain influence oneself: crescere ex invidia senatoria
- the moon waxes, wanes: luna crescit; decrescit, senescit
Categories:
- Italian non-lemma forms
- Italian verb forms
- Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin 2-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin verbs
- Latin third conjugation verbs
- Latin third conjugation verbs with irregular perfect
- Latin inchoative verbs
- Latin active-only verbs
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook