accresce
English
Etymology
From Latin accrescere. Doublet of accrease. See accrue.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈkrɛs/
- Rhymes: -ɛs
Verb
accresce (third-person singular simple present accresces, present participle accrescing, simple past and past participle accresced)
- (rare, intransitive) To accrue.
- (Early Modern, obsolete, intransitive) To increase; to grow.
References
- “accresce, v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
Italian
Verb
accresce
- third-person singular present indicative of accrescere
Latin
Verb
accrēsce
- second-person singular present active imperative of accrēscō