excresco

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs

Proto-Italic *eks

Latin ex

Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-

Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti

Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁-sḱéti

Latin crēscō

Latin excrēscō

From ex + crēscō (“to grow”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛkˈskreːs.koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ekˈskrɛs.ko]

Verb

excrēscō (present infinitive excrēscere, perfect active excrēvī, supine excrētum); third conjugation, no passive

1. (intransitive) to grow out, grow up

   Synonyms: crēscō, adolēscō, accrēscō, olēscō, glīscō

   Antonym: dēcrēscō

2. (intransitive, figuratively) to grow excessively

Conjugation

   Conjugation of excrēscō (third conjugation, no passive)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	excrēscō		excrēscis		excrēscit		excrēscimus		excrēscitis		excrēscunt
	imperfect	excrēscēbam		excrēscēbās		excrēscēbat		excrēscēbāmus		excrēscēbātis		excrēscēbant
	future	excrēscam		excrēscēs		excrēscet		excrēscēmus		excrēscētis		excrēscent
	perfect	excrēvī		excrēvistī		excrēvit		excrēvimus		excrēvistis		excrēvērunt, excrēvēre
	pluperfect	excrēveram		excrēverās		excrēverat		excrēverāmus		excrēverātis		excrēverant
	future perfect	excrēverō		excrēveris		excrēverit		excrēverimus		excrēveritis		excrēverint
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	excrēscam		excrēscās		excrēscat		excrēscāmus		excrēscātis		excrēscant
	imperfect	excrēscerem		excrēscerēs		excrēsceret		excrēscerēmus		excrēscerētis		excrēscerent
	perfect	excrēverim		excrēverīs		excrēverit		excrēverīmus		excrēverītis		excrēverint
	pluperfect	excrēvissem		excrēvissēs		excrēvisset		excrēvissēmus		excrēvissētis		excrēvissent
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		excrēsce		—		—		excrēscite		—
	future	—		excrēscitō		excrēscitō		—		excrēscitōte		excrēscuntō
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		excrēscere			—			excrēscēns			—
future		excrētūrum esse			—			excrētūrus			—
perfect		excrēvisse			—			—			—
perfect potential		excrētūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		excrēscendī		excrēscendō		excrēscendum		excrēscendō		excrētum		excrētū

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: screscere

References

• “excresco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “excresco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers