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crescunt

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

Found 53 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Senectute 50: … omparandae? atque haec quidem studia doctrinae, quae quidem prudentibus et bene institutis pariter cum aetate crescunt, ut honestum illud Solonis sit, quod ait versiculo quodam, ut ante dixi, senescere se multa in dies addiscent …

Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.522: forsitan et matrem. Crescunt ignisque dolorque

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.