cresco
See also: cresço and Cresco
Italian
Verb
cresco
- first-person singular present indicative of crescere
Anagrams
- croscè
Latin
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁-sḱéti, from the root *ḱer- (“to grow, become bigger”), whence also Latin creō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkreːs.koː/, [ˈkreːs̠koː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkres.ko/, [ˈkrɛsko]
Verb
crēscō (present infinitive crēscere, perfect active crēvī, supine crētum); third conjugation, no passive
- I rise, grow, grow up; prosper, thrive; increase, multiply, augment
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.913-914:
- ‘tū sata sīderibus caelī nūtrīta secundīs
crēscere, dum fīant falcibus apta, sinās.’- “May you allow the crops – having been nourished by the stars of favorable heaven – to thrive, until they become ready for the sickles.”
(A prayer spoken by the Flamen Quirinalis during the Robigalia to propitiate the deity Robigo or Robigus and prevent agricultural diseases.)
- “May you allow the crops – having been nourished by the stars of favorable heaven – to thrive, until they become ready for the sickles.”
- ‘tū sata sīderibus caelī nūtrīta secundīs
- Synonyms: adolēscō, accrēscō, excrēscō, olēscō
- Antonym: dēcrēscō
- I come to be.
- I become visible, spring from, arise, come forth.
- Synonyms: appāreō, obversor, prōcēdō, exorior, orior, coorior
- Antonyms: cēdō, concēdō, decēdō, excēdō, discēdō, pereō, intereō
Conjugation
- The only attested passive forms are those from crētus, which is used in an active sense.
Conjugation of crēscō (third conjugation, active only) | |||||||
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indicative | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | crēscō | crēscis | crēscit | crēscimus | crēscitis | crēscunt |
imperfect | crēscēbam | crēscēbās | crēscēbat | crēscēbāmus | crēscēbātis | crēscēbant | |
future | crēscam | crēscēs | crēscet | crēscēmus | crēscētis | crēscent | |
perfect | crēvī | crēvistī | crēvit | crēvimus | crēvistis | crēvērunt, crēvēre | |
pluperfect | crēveram | crēverās | crēverat | crēverāmus | crēverātis | crēverant | |
future perfect | crēverō | crēveris | crēverit | crēverimus | crēveritis | crēverint | |
subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | crēscam | crēscās | crēscat | crēscāmus | crēscātis | crēscant |
imperfect | crēscerem | crēscerēs | crēsceret | crēscerēmus | crēscerētis | crēscerent | |
perfect | crēverim | crēverīs | crēverit | crēverīmus | crēverītis | crēverint | |
pluperfect | crēvissem | crēvissēs | crēvisset | crēvissēmus | crēvissētis | crēvissent | |
imperative | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | — | crēsce | — | — | crēscite | — |
future | — | crēscitō | crēscitō | — | crēscitōte | crēscuntō | |
non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
infinitives | crēscere | crēvisse | crētūrum esse | — | — | — | |
participles | crēscēns | — | crētūrus | — | — | — | |
verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
crēscendī | crēscendō | crēscendum | crēscendō | crētum | crētū |
Derived terms
- accrēscō
- concrēscō
- crēscēns
- dēcrēscō
- excrēscō
- incrēscō
- succrēscō
- supercrēscō
Related terms
- crēber
Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: crescu, creashtiri
- Romanian: crește, creștere
- Dalmatian:
- crescro, crascro, craskro
- Italo-Romance:
- Corsican: crescia
- Italian: crescere
- Neapolitan: cresce
- Sicilian: crìsciri
- Padanian:
- Friulian: cressi, creši
- Istriot: crìssi
- Piedmontese: chërse
- Romansch: crescher
- Venetian: créser, crésar
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Old Francoprovençal: creistre
- Franco-Provençal: crêtre, creître, crèthre
- Old French: creistre, croistre
- French: croître
- Norman: creître
- → English: crew
- Picard: croète
- Walloon: crexhe
- Old Francoprovençal: creistre
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Aragonese: creixer, crexer
- Catalan: créixer
- Occitan: créisser
- Ibero-Romance:
- Asturian: crecer
- Old Portuguese: crescer
- Galician: crecer
- Portuguese: crescer
- Old Spanish: cresçer
- Spanish: crecer
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: crèschere, crèscere, creschi, crèsciri
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *discrescere
- Old French: descreistre
- French: décroître
- → English: decrease, decrew
- Old Italian: discrescere
- Old Portuguese: descrecer
- Old Spanish: descrecer
- Old French: descreistre
- Borrowings:
- → Esperanto: kreski
See also
- cernō
References
- “cresco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cresco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cresco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the moon waxes, wanes: luna crescit; decrescit, senescit
- my subject grows as I write: materia mihi crescit
- to take courage: animus alicui accedit, crescit
- the price of corn is going up: annona ingravescit, crescit
- to raise oneself by another's fall: crescere ex aliquo
- to profit by the unpopularity of the senate to gain influence oneself: crescere ex invidia senatoria
- the moon waxes, wanes: luna crescit; decrescit, senescit
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “crēscō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 144