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
Liber XXI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Ardea Rutulorum quidam generis; ceterum in tantas brevi creverant opes seu maritimis seu terrestribus fructibus seu multitudinis incremento..."Liber II
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Saevire inde utique consulum alter patresque; sed plebi creverant animi et longe alia quam primo instituerant via grassabantur..."Liber I
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...deductam triginta ferme interfuere anni. Tantum tamen opes creverant maxime fusis Etruscis ut ne morte quidem Aeneae..."BELLUM CATILINAE
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...alios eius modi, qui malo rei publicae creverant, iugulari iussit, quis non factum eius laudabat? Homines scelestos..."