The corpus record — Latin

in-cresco

in-cresco · v. n

to grow in

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Where it lives

De Medicina 54 · 5.27/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 1 · 1.48/10k
Ad Nationes 2 · 1.34/10k
Naturalis Historia 21 · 0.53/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.46/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k
Pharsalia 2 · 0.39/10k
Letters 2 · 0.31/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

in-cresco — Lewis & Short

in-cresco, ēvi, v. n.,

I to grow in or upon any thing (perh. not ante-Aug.).

I Lit.: non taedia animalium capillis increscunt, do not grow in the hair, Plin. 28, 11, 46, § 163. —

B In gen., to grow, increase: lacrimis quoque flumina dicunt Increvisse suis, Ov. M. 11, 48: maxime cibo eget, qui increscit, Cels. 1, 3: ne cum increverint (arbores), Col. 3, 21.—

II Trop.

A To grow or increase in: animis discordibus irae, Verg. A. 9, 688.—

B In gen., to increase, augment: morbus increscit, Cels. 3, 2: dolor, Sen. Med. 951: audacia, Liv. 1, 33, 8: certamen, id. 10, 5, 2: fremitus, id. 45, 1, 3: increscere et invalescere sententiam, Dig. 33, 7, 12.— Rhet., to advance from weaker to stronger expressions: hoc genus increscit, Quint. 8, 4, 2.

Where it came from

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