crescentis
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;
gen. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
Liber VIII
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...senio fractisque modestior annis(hunc genuit custos Nili crescentis in aruaMemphis uana sacris; illo cultore deorumlustra suae Phoebes..."XVIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...timuit, ne stupra furtivosque concubitus parvuli vultus aut crescentis infantiae similitudo detegeret. natum de te continuo, si quid..."Aeneid X
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...sperat nec fracta remurmurat unda, sed mare inoffensum crescenti adlabitur aestu, advertit subito proras sociosque precatur: 'nunc..."Ecloga II
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Ecologues
"...Aspice, aratra iugo referunt suspensa iuvenci et sol crescentis decedens duplicat umbras. me tamen urit amor; quis enim..."Liber II
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...siluestria tecum uirgulta et prolem tarde crescentis oliuae. huc, pater o Lenaee: tuis hic omnia plena muneribus, tibi..."Metamorphoses XIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...veteres finire coegerat iras, cum, bene fundatis opibus crescentis Iuli, tempestivus erat caelo Cythereius heros. ambieratque Venus superos..."Liber VII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...urbem solo luctari aut in urbe insidentem labem crescentis in dies fenoris pati? Haec agitata occultis coniurationibus necdum..."