crescant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cresco, crescere, crevi, cretus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
come forth/to be; arise/spring (from); be born; become visible/great; grow (up);; thrive, increase (size/number/honor), multiply; ascend; attain, be promoted;
pl. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
- T
Liber III
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...Tartara deditur atra; materies opus est, ut crescant postera saecla; quae tamen omnia te vita perfuncta sequentur..." - D
Satura X
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...prima fere uota et cunctis notissima templis diuitiae, crescant ut opes, ut maxima toto nostra sit arca foro..." - L
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...hibernis aquis intumescant, alia in defectu ceterorum amnium crescant. [1,2] Nilum interim seponemus a turba, propriae naturae..." - L
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...scias quemadmodum incipiant adfectus aut crescant aut efferantur, est primus motus non uoluntarius, quasi praeparatio adfectus et quaedam..."