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Italian
Verb
decresco
- first-person singular present indicative of decrescere
Latin
Etymology
From de- (“of; from, away from”) + crēscō (“grow”).
Pronunciation
Verb
dēcrēscō (present infinitive dēcrēscere, perfect active dēcrēvī, supine dēcrētum); third conjugation, no passive
- to grow less or shorter, decrease, wane, dwindle
- Antonyms: adolēscō, accrēscō, crēscō, excrēscō, olēscō, glīscō
- to vanish, fade, disappear, pass away by diminution
Conjugation
- The only attested passive forms are those from dēcrētus, which is used in an active sense.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “decresco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “decresco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- decresco 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