crescens
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. sg. pres. act. part.nom. sg. pres. act. part.voc. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
- M
Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...feris non ausi tradere busto nondum stante modo crescens fugere cadauer. sed maiora parant Libycae spectacula pestes. inpressit..." - L
Liber VI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...ictus terram quatit aut spiritus agitatio ipso motu crescens et se incitans ab imo in summa usque perfertur..." - L
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...quin sparsio illa quae ex fundamentis mediae harenae crescens in summam usque amphitheatri altitudinem peruenit cum intentione aquae..." - L
Agamemnon
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...prona, iam praeceps dies: exigua nubes sordido crescens globo nitidum cadentis inquinat Phoebi iubar; suspecta uarius occidens fecit..." - P
Metamorphoses X
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...parvos digiti, duratur cortice pellis. iamque gravem crescens uterum perstrinxerat arbor pectoraque obruerat collumque operire parabat: non tulit..." - P
Liber I
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...Carthagine orto neque expectata Vipstani Aproniani proconsulis auctoritate: Crescens Neronis libertus (nam et hi malis temporibus partem..."