crescendo
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;
abl. sg. fut. pass. part.abl. sg. fut. pass. part.dat. sg. fut. pass. part.dat. sg. fut. pass. part.
Examples
Liber XX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...Ipsa scilicet magnitudine. Nec hoc nouum est, quaedam crescendo mutari. Infans fuit; factus est pubes:alia eius proprietas..."Liber Tertius
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...autem ipsum bonum non accessione neque crescendo aut cum ceteris comparando, sed propria vi sua et sentimus..."Metamorphoses XV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...ingenti rerum fundamina ponit: haec igitur formam crescendo mutat et olim inmensi caput orbis erit! sic dicere vates..."Metamorphoses XIV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...nullus adhuc mundo praebebat lumina Titan, nec nova crescendo reparabat cornua Phoebe, nec circumfuso pendebat in aere tellus..."Metamorphoses IV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...illis una. velut, si quis conducat cortice ramos, crescendo iungi pariterque adolescere cernit, sic ubi conplexu coierunt membra..."Metamorphoses I
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...nullus adhuc mundo praebebat lumina Titan, nec nova crescendo reparabat cornua Phoebe, nec circumfuso pendebat in aere tellus..."