cresco
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;
sg. pres. act. ind. 1st
Examples
- L
Liber IV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...relictum est. Vale. XXXIV. SENECA LUCILIO SUO SALUTEM Cresco et exsulto et discussa senectute recalesco quotiens..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...immo terrae tuber: nec sursum nec deorsum non cresco, nisi dominum tuum in rutae folium non conieci..."