decresco
See also: decresço
Italian edit
Verb edit
decresco
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From de- (“of; from, away from”) + crēscō (“grow”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /deːˈkreːs.koː/, [d̪eːˈkreːs̠koː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /deˈkres.ko/, [d̪eˈkrɛsko]
Verb edit
dēcrēscō (present infinitive dēcrēscere, perfect active dēcrēvī, supine dēcrētum); third conjugation, no passive
- to grow less or shorter, decrease, wane, dwindle
- to vanish, fade, disappear, pass away by diminution
Conjugation edit
- The only attested passive forms are those from dēcrētus, which is used in an active sense.
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Catalan: decréixer
- → Galician: decrecer
- → Italian: decrescere
- → Portuguese: decrescer
- → Spanish: decrecer
References edit
- “decresco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “decresco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- decresco 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
- the moon waxes, wanes: luna crescit; decrescit, senescit