decresco
See also: decresço
Italian
Verb
decresco
- first-person singular present indicative of decrescere
Latin
Etymology
From de- (“of; from, away from”) + crēscō (“grow”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /deːˈkreːs.koː/, [d̪eːˈkreːs̠koː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /deˈkres.ko/, [d̪eˈkrɛsko]
Verb
dēcrēscō (present infinitive dēcrēscere, perfect active dēcrēvī, supine dēcrētum); third conjugation, no passive
- I grow less or shorter, decrease, wane, dwindle.
- Antonyms: adolēscō, accrēscō, crēscō, excrēscō, olēscō
- I vanish, fade, disappear, pass away by diminution.
Conjugation
- The only attested passive forms are those from dēcrētus, which is used in an active sense.
| Conjugation of dēcrēscō (third conjugation, active only) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | dēcrēscō | dēcrēscis | dēcrēscit | dēcrēscimus | dēcrēscitis | dēcrēscunt |
| imperfect | dēcrēscēbam | dēcrēscēbās | dēcrēscēbat | dēcrēscēbāmus | dēcrēscēbātis | dēcrēscēbant | |
| future | dēcrēscam | dēcrēscēs | dēcrēscet | dēcrēscēmus | dēcrēscētis | dēcrēscent | |
| perfect | dēcrēvī | dēcrēvistī | dēcrēvit | dēcrēvimus | dēcrēvistis | dēcrēvērunt, dēcrēvēre | |
| pluperfect | dēcrēveram | dēcrēverās | dēcrēverat | dēcrēverāmus | dēcrēverātis | dēcrēverant | |
| future perfect | dēcrēverō | dēcrēveris | dēcrēverit | dēcrēverimus | dēcrēveritis | dēcrēverint | |
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | dēcrēscam | dēcrēscās | dēcrēscat | dēcrēscāmus | dēcrēscātis | dēcrēscant |
| imperfect | dēcrēscerem | dēcrēscerēs | dēcrēsceret | dēcrēscerēmus | dēcrēscerētis | dēcrēscerent | |
| perfect | dēcrēverim | dēcrēverīs | dēcrēverit | dēcrēverīmus | dēcrēverītis | dēcrēverint | |
| pluperfect | dēcrēvissem | dēcrēvissēs | dēcrēvisset | dēcrēvissēmus | dēcrēvissētis | dēcrēvissent | |
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | dēcrēsce | — | — | dēcrēscite | — |
| future | — | dēcrēscitō | dēcrēscitō | — | dēcrēscitōte | dēcrēscuntō | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | dēcrēscere | dēcrēvisse | dēcrētūrum esse | — | — | — | |
| participles | dēcrēscēns | — | dēcrētūrus | — | — | — | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| dēcrēscendī | dēcrēscendō | dēcrēscendum | dēcrēscendō | dēcrētum | dēcrētū | ||
Derived terms
- dēcrēmentum
Descendants
- → Catalan: decréixer
- → Galician: decrecer
- → Italian: decrescere
- → Portuguese: decrescer
- → Spanish: decrecer
References
- “decresco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “decresco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- decresco 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
- the moon waxes, wanes: luna crescit; decrescit, senescit