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
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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."Liber I
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...Carthagine orto neque expectata Vipstani Aproniani proconsulis auctoritate: Crescens Neronis libertus (nam et hi malis temporibus partem..."