crescendos
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;
acc. pl. fut. pass. part.
Examples
- L
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..." - M
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..."