crescentias
Dictionary entries
- Entry →crescentia, crescentiae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
increase, lengthening; augmentation (L+S);
acc. pl.
Examples
Liber II
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...quando seminibus certis certa genetrice creata conservare genus crescentia posse videmus. scilicet id certa fieri ratione necessust..."Libri XI-XIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...surgentia excogitant et tabulata tacite in sublime crescentia et alias ex inopinato varietates, aut dehiscentibus quae cohaerebant..."
Liber Quintus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...euinctum ramis altaque in mole tapetum efflantem somno crescentia uina superstans uulnera disiecta rimatur ueste, sed illum infelix..."Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...mari exerceatur, et laetum opere corpus, et crescentia laboribus membra mirabor. Video enim iam inde antiquitus maritos dearum..."