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crescit

crescit is a Latin form of cresco, meaning “grow, increase; arise”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 128 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In Catilinam 1.5: castra sunt in Italia contra populum Romanum in Etruriae faucibus conlocata, crescit in dies singulos hostium numerus; eorum autem castrorum imperatorem ducemque hostium intra moenia atque adeo …

Ovid, Heroides 16.228: Crescit et invito lentus in ore cibus.

All forms of cresco (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.