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Crasse

Crasse is a Latin form of creo, meaning “create, make; elect, appoint; beget”. It is the perfect active infinitive.

It can also be a form of crassus, “thick, dense, coarse; (Crassus) Crassus, family name (esp. M. Licinius Crassus, the triumvir)”.

Found 68 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Horace, Epistulae 2.1.76: Indignor quicquam reprehendi, non quia crasse

Propertius, Elegiae 4.6.83: gaude, Crasse, nigras si quid sapis inter harenas:

All forms of creo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.