crescere
Italian
Etymology
From Latin crēscere, from Proto-Italic *krēskō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁- (“to grow, become bigger”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkreʃ.ʃe.re/
- Rhymes: -eʃʃere
- Hyphenation: cré‧sce‧re
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Verb
créscere (first-person singular present crésco, first-person singular past historic crébbi, past participle cresciùto, auxiliary (intransitive) èssere or (transitive) avére)
- (intransitive) to grow, to increase, to expand [auxiliary essere]
- (intransitive, figurative) to progress [auxiliary essere]
- (transitive) to increase
- (transitive) to grow, to cultivate
Conjugation
Conjugation of créscere (root-stressed -ere; irregular) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
1Intransitive.
2Transitive.
Related terms
- crescendo
- crescent, from the French croissant, used to describe the waxing phase of the moon
- crescenza
- crescimento
- crescita
- decrescere, screscere
- increscere, rincrescere
Latin
Verb
crēscere
- present active infinitive of crēscō