cresco

See also: cresço and Cresco

Italian

Pronunciation
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Verb

cresco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of crescere

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁-sḱéti, from the root *ḱer- (“to grow, become bigger”), whence also Latin creō.

Pronunciation

Verb

crēscō (present infinitive crēscere, perfect active crēvī, supine crētum); third conjugation, no passive

  1. to rise, grow, grow up; prosper, thrive; increase, multiply, augment
    Synonyms: adolēscō, accrēscō, excrēscō, olēscō, glīscō
    Antonym: dēcrēscō
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.913–914:
      ‘tū sata sīderibus caelī nūtrīta secundīs
      crēscere, dum fīant falcibus apta, sinās.’
      “May you allow the crops – having been nourished by the stars of favorable heaven – to thrive, until they become ready for the sickles.”
      (A prayer spoken by the Flamen Quirinalis during the Robigalia to propitiate the deity Robigo or Robigus and prevent agricultural diseases.)
  2. to come to be
  3. to become visible, spring from, arise, come forth
    Synonyms: appāreō, obversor, prōcēdō, exorior, orior, coorior
    Antonyms: cēdō, concēdō, decēdō, excēdō, discēdō, pereō, intereō

Conjugation
  • The only attested passive forms are those from crētus, which is used in an active sense.
   Conjugation of crēscō (third conjugation, active only)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present crēscō crēscis crēscit crēscimus crēscitis crēscunt
imperfect crēscēbam crēscēbās crēscēbat crēscēbāmus crēscēbātis crēscēbant
future crēscam crēscēs crēscet crēscēmus crēscētis crēscent
perfect crēvī crēvistī crēvit crēvimus crēvistis crēvērunt,
crēvēre
pluperfect crēveram crēverās crēverat crēverāmus crēverātis crēverant
future perfect crēverō crēveris crēverit crēverimus crēveritis crēverint
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present crēscam crēscās crēscat crēscāmus crēscātis crēscant
imperfect crēscerem crēscerēs crēsceret crēscerēmus crēscerētis crēscerent
perfect crēverim crēverīs crēverit crēverīmus crēverītis crēverint
pluperfect crēvissem crēvissēs crēvisset crēvissēmus crēvissētis crēvissent
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — crēsce — — crēscite —
future — crēscitō crēscitō — crēscitōte crēscuntō
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives crēscere crēvisse crētūrum esse — — —
participles crēscēns — crētūrus — — —
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
crēscendī crēscendō crēscendum crēscendō crētum crētū

Derived terms

Descendants

See also

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, 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
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “crēscō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 144
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