# cresco
## Italian
### Pronunciation

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### 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, as well as perhaps Proto-Slavic *krěti (“to intensify”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkreːs.koː/, [ˈkreːs̠koː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈkres.ko/, [ˈkrɛsko]

### Verb

crēscō (present infinitive crēscere, perfect active crēvī, supine crētum); third conjugation, no passive
* to rise, grow, grow up; prosper, thrive; increase, multiply, augment
    Synonyms: adolēscō, accrēscō, excrēscō, olēscō, glīscō
    Antonym: dēcrēscō
** 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.)
* to come to be
* to 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.

#### Derived terms

* accrēscō
* concrēscō
* crēscēns
* dēcrēscō
* excrēscō
* incrēscō
* succrēscō
* supercrēscō

#### Related terms

* crēber

#### Descendants

* Balkan Romance:
** Aromanian: crescu, creashtiri
** Megleno-Romanian: cresc, creaștiri
** Romanian: crește, creștere
* Dalmatian:
** crescro, crascro, craskro
* Italo-Romance:
** Corsican: crescia
** Italian: crescere
** Neapolitan: cresce
** Sicilian: crìsciri
* North Italian:
** Friulian: cressi, creši
** Istriot: crìssi
** Piedmontese: chërse
** Romansch: crescher
** Venetian: créser, crésar
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: créixer
** Franco-Provençal: crêtre
** Old French: croistre (see there for further descendants)
** Occitan: créisser
* Ibero-Romance:
** Aragonese: creixer, crexer
** Asturian: crecer
** Old Galician-Portuguese: crecer
*** 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 Spanish: descrecer
* Borrowings:
** → Esperanto: kreski

#### See also

* cernō

### References

* ↑ 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, page 144

### Further reading

* “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