decrescentes
Dictionary entries
- Entry →decresco, decrescere, decrevi, decretus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
decrease; abate; diminish, dwindle, shrink; (in number/amount); be subtracted;; lose vigor/intensity, decline/weaken/fade influence/reputation; grow shorter;
acc. pl. pres. act. part.nom. pl. pres. act. part.voc. pl. pres. act. part.
Examples
Liber XXVI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...stabatur; minusque ac minus, cum timore simul fide decrescente, conueniebat. iam ferme pedestres omnes copiae euaserant e saltu..."Liber VI
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...suscepisti. Erat, cum donarem, centum milium nummum; postea decrescente reditu etiam pretium minuit, quod nunc te curante reparabit..."
