creverant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cerno, cernere, crevi, cretus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
sift, separate, distinguish, discern, resolve, determine; see; examine; decide;; come forth/to be; arise/spring (from); be born; become visible/great; grow (up);; thrive, increase (size/number/honor), multiply; ascend; attain, be promoted;
pl. pluperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- T
Liber XXI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Ardea Rutulorum quidam generis; ceterum in tantas brevi creverant opes seu maritimis seu terrestribus fructibus seu multitudinis incremento..." - T
Liber II
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Saevire inde utique consulum alter patresque; sed plebi creverant animi et longe alia quam primo instituerant via grassabantur..." - T
Liber I
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...deductam triginta ferme interfuere anni. Tantum tamen opes creverant maxime fusis Etruscis ut ne morte quidem Aeneae..." - G
BELLUM CATILINAE
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...alios eius modi, qui malo rei publicae creverant, iugulari iussit, quis non factum eius laudabat? Homines scelestos..."