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
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..."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..."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..."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..."