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incresco
incresco
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /inˈkreːs.koː/
Verb
incrēscō (present infinitive incrēscere, perfect active incrēvī, supine incrētum); third conjugation
Inflection
Related terms
Descendants
- English: increase
- Old French: encreistre
- Italian: increscere
References
- incresco in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- incresco in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “incresco”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the heat is abating: calor se frangit (opp. increscit)
- the heat is abating: calor se frangit (opp. increscit)