cresco
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cresco
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Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁-sḱéti, from the root *ḱer- (“to grow, become bigger”), whence also Latin creō.
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkreːs.koː/, [ˈkreːs̠koː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkres.ko/, [ˈkrɛsko]
Verb edit
crēscō (present infinitive crēscere, perfect active crēvī, supine crētum); third conjugation, no passive
- to rise, grow, grow up; prosper, thrive; increase, multiply, augment
- 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.)
- “May you allow the crops – having been nourished by the stars of favorable heaven – to thrive, until they become ready for the sickles.”
- ‘tū sata sīderibus caelī nūtrīta secundīs
- to come to be
- to become visible, spring from, arise, come forth
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- The only attested passive forms are those from crētus, which is used in an active sense.
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- Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: crescu, creashtiri
- Romanian: crește, creștere
- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *discrescere
- Old French: descreistre
- Old Italian: discrescere
- Old Spanish: descrecer
- Borrowings:
- → Esperanto: kreski
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References edit
- “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
- 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