cresco

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cresco

1. first-person singular present indicative of crescere

• croscè

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁-sḱéti, from the root *ḱer- (“to grow, become bigger”), whence also Latin creō, as well as perhaps Proto-Slavic *krěti (“to intensify”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkreːs.koː/, [ˈkreːs̠koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkres.ko/, [ˈkrɛsko]

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

• The only attested passive forms are those from crētus, which is used in an active sense.

• crēber

• cernō

• “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